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M. Stanton Evans, a long-time Human Events contributor, is the author of “Blacklisted by History: the Untold Story of Sen. Joe McCarthy” (Crown, 2007) and co-author of the soon-to-be-published “Stalin’s Secret Agents” (Threshold).

RECENT ARTICLES

  • Senate Historian Clams Up When Queried On McCarthy

    In a key step toward unravelling the secret history of the Cold War, the U.S. Senate last week released 50-year-old executive hearings on subversion and internal security matters conducted by Sen. Joe McCarthy (R.-Wis.) — but the Senate Historian doesn’t want to talk about it.

  • FLASHBACK: May 30, 1997McCarthyism: Waging the Cold War in America

    Sen. McCarthy’s death apparently closed a raucous, controversial saga, one of the most bitter and brutal in our nation’s history, with McCarthy typecast as the villain. Events of recent years, however, suggest the final chapters of this astounding story have yet to be recorded.

  • McCarthyism: Waging the Cold War in America

    Sen. McCarthy’s death apparently closed a raucous, controversial saga, one of the most bitter and brutal in our nation’s history, with McCarthy typecast as the villain. Events of recent years, however, suggest the final chapters of this astounding story have yet to be recorded.

  • ‘Pragmatic’ Personnel Eroding Reagan Mandate

    Most of the problems afflicting the Reagan Administration nowadays stem from a neglected rule of government: Personnel is policy. That’s the conclusion emerging from a searching critique of the new regime conducted by the Reagan-oriented Heritage Foundation (see Human Events, | Read More »