Red Scare Story Hour

Liberals recycle the same Red Scare myths, swapping Nixon for Trump and ignoring hard evidence that undercuts their tidy fairy-tale of heroes and villains. Fifty years ago, I had the misfortune to spend an entire semester as a college student with a fellow scholar who could only be described as an aggressive bore. Even though the seminar’s subject was literature, my pedantic classmate treated every topic that came up as a historical parallel to the McCarthy Era, the Vietnam War, and Watergate. (Nowadays, the trifecta has been updated to Charlottesville. January 6 and all things Russian.) I was reminded of...