New from me: an essay on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and its remarkable 30 year history of witch hunts & blacklists.
It chronicles the progression of how industries & academia went from capitulation to defiance,& what we can take from that today
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Process as Punishment: An American History of Political Spectacle
American political theater isn’t new. The House Un-American Activities Committee operated for decades—until targets learned to fight back.