Nicholas H. Wolfinger
Unsafe Science
Excerpt: “A new McCarthyism has descended on higher education”
If I had a dollar every time I read that phrase, I could afford to endow a chair in McCarthy studies. Centrists and conservatives used it a lot during the Great Awokening of the 2010s. Progressives got their turn after the October 7 Hamas attack. And, of course, the second Trump presidency and its assault on higher education has been manna for the McCarthyism-pronouncers. None of these folks are wrong, except perhaps for their reliance on a tired trope.
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