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CounterPunch RadioResisting Attacks on Academic Freedom w/ Ellen SchreckerOn this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank welcome Ellen Schrecker to discuss the legacy of McCarthyism and the current right-wing attack on academic freedom in the U.S., and why the situation is even worse today than it was in the 1950s.
Ellen Schrecker is an American historian and author who has written extensively about McCarthyism and American higher education. She is the author of many books, including The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s, published by the University of Chicago Press, which provides the first comprehensive analysis of American higher education’s...
2026-01-0648 min
The World According to Jen & CarolynYes-Men and the Fall of Leaders — From Trump to History’s AuthoritariansSend us a textIn this episode, Jen & Carolyn dive into the phenomenon of leaders who surround themselves not with the best and brightest, but with the most loyal and the most sycophantic. Yes-men. Lapdogs. Toadies. Whatever you call them, they have shaped history — and often brought down the very leaders who empowered them. Our jumping-off point is a recent column by Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, titled Why Trump Built a Staff of Incompetent Sycophants. Reich’s argument is stark: Donald Trump, like authoritarian rulers before him, prizes loyalty over competence. And the resu...
2025-12-1847 min
Varn VlogAmerica’s Battle Over The Intellectual with Daniel TuttWhat if America’s “anti-intellectualism” isn’t a decline in smarts but a culture built to distrust theory? We trace that paradox from Puritan moral rigor and pragmatist “cash value” truths to the postwar professional class that speaks in a neutral tone while hiding its class origins. With Hofstadter, Lasch, and Gouldner as our guides, we unpack how speech codes, funding models, and media ecosystems shape who gets to be an “intellectual” and whose knowledge counts.We dig into Lasch’s portraits of turn‑of‑the‑century radicals—Jane Addams, Randolph Bourne, Lincoln Steffens—showing how bohemia, policy reform, and romantic...
2025-12-082h 28
American Campus PodcastSTRAIGHT at Penn State and anti-gay backlash in the 1990s with Richard S. PriceThe straight college strikes back!References and suggested readings:Richard S. Price. October 6, 2025. The straight college strikes back: 1990s backlash against inclusive campuses. Politics, Groups, and Identities.Megan Brenan. May 29, 2025. “Record Party Divide 10 Years After Same-Sex Marriage Ruling.” Gallup.David A. Reichard. 2024. Here Are My People: LGBT College Student Organizing in California. University of Georgia Press.Lawrence Glickman. May 21, 2020. “How White Backlash Controls American Progress.” The Atlantic.Hannah Kaner’s Fallen Gods Trilogy: Faithbreaker (2025); Sunbringer (2024); Godkiller (2023)Ellen Schrecker. 2025. The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. University of Chicago Press.adventuresincensorship.com Support the showBrow...
2025-12-0440 min
Speaking Out of Place“Much Much Worse than McCarthyism, But with a Big Positive Difference”: A Conversation with Legendary Historian Ellen SchreckerToday I have the immense honor and privilege to speak with Ellen Schrecker, who has been referred to as “the dean of the anti-anti-Communist historians.” Well known for her classic studies of McCarthyism, today Schrecker explains how much worse Trump’s regime is than what we saw in the 1950s and 60s. A fierce defender of democracy, Ellen explains the central role education plays in creating a public culture and in maintaining democracy. Our conversation takes many paths, including an indictment of Capitalism, of the dominance of economistic thinking and values, of the ways university leaders are bending a knee to T...
2025-11-2047 min
AAUP PresentsDefending Academic Freedom: Learning to ResistThe 9th episode of our special series “Academic Freedom on the Line” is a conversation among 4 authors who contributed to the recently published University Keywords, a volume on how universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles. Andy Hines, the volume editor, Senior Associate Director of the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College, and author of Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University; Jennifer Ruth, professor in the School of Film at Portland State University, and co-director of The Palestine Exception, who serves on the steering committee of Coalition for Action in Highe...
2025-10-2246 min
The Deeper Thinking PodcastThe Perilous Turbulence of Free Speech - The Deeper Thinking PodcastThe Perilous Turbulence of Free Speech
The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated.
For those drawn to the fragility of liberty, the paradox of dissent, and the hidden strategies of silence.
#FreeSpeech #Socrates #Galileo #McCarthyism #TiananmenSquare #PoliticalTheory
Free speech is praised as principle, but it survives only as struggle. This episode traces its paradox: that democracy must permit even voices intent on its destruction, or cease to be democracy at all. From the trial of Socrates to Galileo, from McCarthyism to Tiananmen Square, we explore how authority silences not only through b...
2025-10-0826 min
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsThe Defense Department wasn't Woke, It was an Agent for Empire and Repression (G&R 418)Donald Trump recently reverted the name of the Dept. of Defense to Dept. of War. He, and his cronies, claim that the Dept of Defense is too woke and needs to return to a "warrior culture." Never one to be confused with a genius, Trump misses the history of why the Department of Defense came into being in 1947 and how it was a blueprint for America being a military, economic and political super power, , i.e. an "American Empire." In our latest, we talk about the history of the National Security...
2025-09-1048 min
Flipping Tables26. F*cking Commies- McCarthy and the Red ScareSorry this came out late, for some reason it did not publish."History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes"- Mark TwainIt seems to be a common ideology that anyone who identifies as "left" or "liberal" or "progressive" or audible gasp "democratic socialist" is "a f*cking commie"!!!! And that of course is bad.... but why? Why is that rhetoric so ingrained in American vernacular?In the wake of World War II, the tenuous "alliance" between the USSR and the USA disintegrated. With the entrance of nuclear arms, the ideological enemies...
2025-08-021h 06
Weird Little GuysThere Is A Spectre Haunting New York CityThe right wing media is buzzing with accusations that the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City is a communist. They're calling for his removal from not only the ballot... but the also the country. This anticommunist panic isn't new. Sources:Drabble, John. “To Ensure Domestic Tranquility: The FBI, Cointelpro-White Hate and Political Discourse, 1964-1971.” Journal of American Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2004, pp. 297–328. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27557518. Horowitz, David Alan. “White Southerners’ Alienation and Civil Rights: The Response to Corporate Liberalism, 1956-1965.” The Journal of Southern History, vol. 54, no. 2, 1988, pp. 173–200. JSTOR, https://doi.or...
2025-07-0347 min
HISTORY This Week"Have You No Decency, Sir?"June 9, 1954. Senator Joseph McCarthy has accused the United States Army of having communists within its midst. After rising to power during a time of great fear in America, McCarthy's name has become synonymous with anti-communism – and with baseless, life-ruining accusations. But today, five simple words will take down one of the most notorious men in American political history.
What made McCarthy so powerful in the first place? And how did that very same thing eventually bring him down?
Thank you to our guest, Ellen Schrecker, historian, author and expert on McCarthyism.
Thank you to...
2025-06-1226 min
Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy RadicalsWorse than McCarthyism? Prof. Ellen Schrecker on Trump's Repression (G&R 392)Ellen Schrecker is the preeminent historian of McCarthyism/The Red Scare in America and we had a really great conversation with her about the resurgence of political repression today . . . Professor Schrecker argues that what we're seeing right now under the Trump administration, especially the attack on Palestine advocates on campuses, is already worse than the early Cold War years. We discussed how the two periods compare: what the motivation was (charges of communism and anti-semitism); the ways in which targeted groups, such as universities and unions, purged themselves before the government had to do it; how the resistance today...
2025-06-0959 min
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and DemocracyTrump's Anti-Knowledge Agenda is Inviting the Next Authoritarian Dark AgeAir Date 6/6/2025 Today, Trump's administration is doing everything in its power to end the era of educational dominance the US has enjoyed for decades. The simple fact that explains the change is that democracy used to be valued across the political spectrum while todays Republican Party is authoritarian and understands that an educated public is a public that demands democracy while an uneducated public is much easier to manipulate and oppress. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Full Show Notes
2025-06-063h 50
KPFA - Democracy Now!Democracy Now 6am – May 30, 2025On today’s show:
“Worse Than McCarthyism”: Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump’s War Against Universities & Students
As Courts Battle Trump on Tariffs, Will Right-Wing Supreme Court Rescue the President’s Trade Agenda?
Trump’s Abuse of Pardons Undermines Entire Justice System: Reagan Official Bruce Fein
The post Democracy Now 6am – May 30, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
2025-05-3022 min
The Real News Podcast‘Worse’ than McCarthyism: Trump’s war on higher education, free speech, and political dissentA dystopian reality has gripped America’s colleges and universities: ICE agents are snatching and disappearing international students in broad daylight; student visas are being revoked en masse overnight; funding cuts and freezes are upending countless careers and our entire public research infrastructure; students are being expelled and faculty fired for speaking out against Israel’s US-backed genocidal war on Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. An all-out assault on higher ed and the people who live, learn, and work there is being led by the federal government and aided by law enforcement, internet vigilantes, and even university administrators. Today’s clim...
2025-04-2849 min
How An Elephant ForgetsRed-Baiting The Blue CollarWhen organizing for better wages became “communist.”When striking for safety meant you were un-American.This episode traces how the Red Scare wasn’t just about spies or politicians—it was a full-blown campaign to brand working people as enemies of the state. From the FBI surveillance of union organizers to the blacklistings of teachers, steelworkers, and screenwriters, we follow how Cold War paranoia was weaponized to silence labor. The hammer and sickle weren’t just painted on enemies abroad—they were stamped on the backs of workers at home.Further Reading:Schreck...
2025-04-1511 min
Speaking Out of PlaceThe 2025 National Day of Action: Talking with the Coalition for Action in Higher Education about "the World We Live in and the World We Want."Today we talk with members of the organizing collective of the Coalition for Action in Higher Education, or CAHE, about their second National Day of Action, taking place on Thursday, April 17. The Day of Action is a call for free higher education in every meaning of that term. CAHE calls for “the elimination of all existing student debt, making all public colleges and universities tuition-free, and ensuring that our colleges and universities remain sites of robust free thinking about the world we live in and the world we want.”We talk about the genesis of this group, and...
2025-04-1046 min
AAUP PresentsAcademic Freedom on the LineThis episode kicks off a new limited series hosted by the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (CDAF), AAUP Presents: Academic Freedom on the Line. CDAF serves as a resource and knowledge hub for all people—including faculty, students, campus workers, alumni, administrators, trustees, parents, journalists, policymakers, and business leaders—seeking to build a flourishing higher education system, rooted in institutional autonomy, workplace democracy, and freedom from coercion and external interference. Its current projects include an Academic Freedom field guide that curates resources for individuals, institutions, and organizations facing attacks on academic freedom and Executive Power...
2025-03-2541 minAmerican Campus PodcastMcCarthyism and the universities with Ellen SchreckerOn the post-World War II Red Scare and its consequences for American higher education.Ellen Schrecker. 1986. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Oxford University Press.Ellen Schrecker. 2021. The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. University of Chicago Press. Ellen Schrecker’s websiteSupport the showBrowse the American Campus bookshelf Get in touch! Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu. You can also anonymously request an episode or give feedback on the show.
2024-11-2140 min
Mr. Hutchings HistoryCulture in the Cold War and McCarthyism EraWelcome to Mr. Hutchings History! In this episode, we explore the cultural impact of the Cold War and McCarthyism on the United States during the 1950s. The era was marked by an intense climate of fear and suspicion, influencing movies, music, art, literature, and journalism. We examine how anti-communist propaganda spread through Hollywood films, comic books, and the press, reflecting the broader national narrative. At the same time, we highlight how artists like Pete Seeger, Arthur Miller, and journalists like Edward R. Murrow pushed back, using their voices to challenge the paranoia of the time. From McCarthy’s attack on...
2024-11-2115 minMr. Hutchings HistoryThe Impact of McCarthyism on the United StatesWelcome to Mr. Hutchings History! In this episode, we examine the profound impact of McCarthyism on the United States during the early Cold War. We explore how the Red Scare, driven by Senator Joseph McCarthy, fueled fear and paranoia, affecting American individuals, politics, and foreign policy. From the blacklisting of Hollywood figures and the political fallout of the Rosenberg trial to McCarthy's influence on U.S. foreign policy, this episode delves into the consequences of McCarthy's anti-communist crusade.We also look at the long-term effects on the judicial system, the purging of intellectuals, and the role of...
2024-11-2116 minMr. Hutchings HistoryMcCarthyism and the Red Scare – Fear, Paranoia, and PoliticsWelcome to Mr. Hutchings History! In this episode, we explore the rise of McCarthyism and the Red Scare in 1950s America. McCarthyism, fueled by Cold War fears and paranoia, deeply impacted U.S. politics and society. We’ll examine the role of key figures like Senator Joseph McCarthy, key events such as the Hollywood Ten trials, the Rosenberg case, and the influence of the FBI in fueling anti-communist hysteria. We'll also delve into the broader global context that made McCarthyism possible and how it influenced domestic policies, labor unions, the arts, and education.From the rise of Mc...
2024-11-2115 minMr. Hutchings HistoryThe Cold War’s Policy of Containment – Impact on the US and CanadaWelcome to Mr. Hutchings History! In today’s episode, we explore the impact of the Cold War’s policy of containment on the United States and Canada during the late 1940s and early 1950s. We begin by discussing Truman’s Truman Doctrine and the roots of containment, which shaped U.S. foreign policy in Europe and Latin America. We’ll also examine McCarthyism, the rise of domestic fear, and its cultural impact on the U.S., alongside Canada’s involvement in the Cold War, following the Igor Gouzenko Affair.From Truman’s declaration of global intervention to Eisenhower’s...
2024-11-2121 min
Mr. Hutchings HistoryA Retrospect: Was Senator McCarthy Right About the Left?Welcome back to Mr. Hutchings History! In this episode, we delve into one of the most controversial periods of the Cold War—McCarthyism and the Red Scare of the 1950s. Was Senator Joseph McCarthy right in his accusations about communist infiltration in the U.S., or did he fuel a dangerous witch hunt? We’ll explore McCarthy's rise to power, his tactics, and the real and perceived threats of communist spies in America. Drawing on historical sources, we’ll assess whether McCarthy’s crusade was justified or reckless.Key Topics:The Cold War backdrop and growing fear of...
2024-11-2108 min
Speaking Out of PlaceDocumenting the Fight Against the Palestine Exception: A Conversation with Filmmakers Jan Haaken and Jennifer RuthThe Palestine Exception opens as campus encampments increase across the US in protest against Israel’s war in Gaza. In the largest anti-war movement since the 1970s, students, faculty and staff make demands on their institutions to divest from companies that do business with Israel. The film unfolds as a character-driven story featuring academics whose lives and scholarship bring into sharp relief historical dynamics behind the censoring of criticisms of Israel and Zionism. To support this critically important project, please use this link.Jan Haaken is professor emeritus of ps...
2024-09-0346 min
FAIREllen Schrecker on the Attack on Academic Freedom
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Law enforcement at UCLA looks on as student peace protesters are attacked by a right-wing mob (CNN, 5/16/24).
This week on CounterSpin: As an historic catastrophe, the deep and myriad impacts of Israel’s assault on Palestinians will not be fully understood until years from now, if then. That only adds urgency to present-day resistance to the collateral assault—on the ability to witness, to record and to remember. And of course to protest. The violent, state-sponsored attacks on college students and faculty across...
2024-05-2427 min
AAUP PresentsPolitical Interference in Higher Ed: Escalations, Attacks, and the Billionaires Behind ItAs violent, militarized responses to protests on campuses across the country continue, in this episode we look at how political interference in higher education has expanded in dangerous ways. We discuss how the right (and increasingly the center) have demonized higher education as a public good, and examine the historical origins of the current onslaught of political interference in higher ed.Isaac Kamola, an associate professor of political science at Trinity College in Connecticut guests. He is the director of the AAUP’s newly established Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, which will examine and confr...
2024-05-0352 min
The Chris Hedges Report PodcastThe Chris Hedges Show Podcast with Ellen Schrecker on the lost promise of American education.The integrity and quality of public higher education in America has been under assault for decades, as Ellen Schrecker documents in her new book The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. The American dream of high-quality, affordable mass higher education is no longer within reach of many Americans. Tuitions, once low, if not free, have soared, and with them tremendous student debt. Although the Biden administration has made an effort to reduce some of this debt, but millions of students, graduates and drop-outs still owe a staggering $1.6 trillion dollars. State legislators and the federal government have...
2023-05-0433 minFAIREllen Schrecker on the New McCarthyism
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Tucker Carlson on Fox News (7/6/21)
This week on CounterSpin: If you care about free expression, and freedom generally, there is much to talk about right now. It is good to anchor ourselves in that conversation when we talk about books being banned and efforts to erase entire concepts, and then folks trying to inoculate themselves by saying they weren’t even talking about those concepts, until they learn that actually running away from those ideas doesn’t make you safe. These are not en...
2023-02-2427 min
BanishedThe Sunshine State Descends into Darkness (Again)Worse than McCarthyism? In this episode of Banished, we explore the all-out assault on academic freedom in higher education in Florida. Turns out there’s a long history of campus witch-hunts in the state. We spoke with Robert Cassenello (history professor at University of Central Florida), Paul Ortiz (history professor at the University of Florida), James Grossman (executive director of the American Historical Association) and Ellen Schrecker (professor emerita at Yeshiva University). Episode transcript available here. References & Links:* Will Florida's "Stop WOKE Act" Hold Up in Court?, Banished podcast episode, November 1, 2022. * Stacy Braukman, Co...
2023-01-2313 min
Varying ViewpointsEpisode 45: "The Lost Promise: Academic Freedom and its Historical Context" with Ellen SchreckerIn this episode, we invited Ellen Schrecker, Professor Emerita of History at Yeshiva University, to discuss her new book: “The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s.” Ellen provides an overview of higher education in the 1960s and how contemporary American higher education compares. She highlights the historical and social context of universities and their involvement in major historical developments of the time period such as the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movements, and economic crises. Ellen emphasizes the distinction between academic freedom and freedom of speech, and how it has been lost over time.
2022-11-0438 min
The Chris Hedges Report PodcastListen to This Article: "They Crush Our Song for a Reason"Narrated by Eunice WongSong - by Mr. FishAugust Wilson wrote 10 plays chronicling Black life in the 20th century. His favorite, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, is set in 1911 in a boarding house in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. The play’s title comes from “Joe Turner’s Blues,” written in 1915 by W. C. Handy. That song refers to a man named Joe Turney, the brother of Peter Turney, who was the governor of Tennessee from 1893 to 1897. Joe Turney transported Black prisoners, chained in a coffle, along the roads from Memphis to the Tennesse...
2022-10-1911 min
The Coffee Klatch with Robert ReichMy father and Senator Joe McCarthyWhen Robert Draper of the New York Times recently asked Rose Sperry, a state committeewoman for Arizona’s G.O.P., to name the first Republican leader she ever admired, she immediately mentioned former Wisconsin senator Joe McCarthy. “I grew up during the time that Joe McCarthy was doing his talking,” Sperry said. “I was young, but I was listening. If he were here today, I would say, ‘Get him in there as president!’”I also grew up during the time Joe McCarthy was “doing his talking,” and I was young and listening, too. But I would not want Joe McCar...
2022-08-2612 min
The AskHistorians PodcastAskHistorians Podcast Episode 200 - American Higher Education with Dr. Ellen SchreckerFor the 200th episode, guest host Jennifer Borgioli Binis (EdHistory101) spoke with one of the country's pre-eminent scholars on American higher education and McCarthism. Dr. Schrecker shares her experiences as a researcher, historian, and woman in academia. 1 hour, 11 minutes.
2022-05-231h 11
The University of Chicago Press PodcastEllen Schrecker, "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s" (U Chicago Press, 2021)The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students.The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia’s golden age, when universities—well funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility—embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schools attracted new types of students and professors, including radicals who challenged their institutions’ calcified traditions. But that halcyon mom...
2022-05-231h 05
New Books in Higher EducationEllen Schrecker, "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s" (U Chicago Press, 2021)The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students.The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia’s golden age, when universities—well funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility—embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schools attracted new types of students and professors, including radicals who challenged their institutions’ calcified traditions. But that halcyon mom...
2022-05-231h 05
New Books in EducationEllen Schrecker, "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s" (U Chicago Press, 2021)The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students.The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia’s golden age, when universities—well funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility—embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schools attracted new types of students and professors, including radicals who challenged their institutions’ calcified traditions. But that halcyon mom...
2022-05-231h 07
New Books in Public PolicyEllen Schrecker, "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s" (U Chicago Press, 2021)The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students.The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia’s golden age, when universities—well funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility—embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schools attracted new types of students and professors, including radicals who challenged their institutions’ calcified traditions. But that halcyon moment soon came to a p...
2022-05-231h 07
HISTORY This WeekFirst Antiwar Teach-InMarch 25, 1965. The US is bombing North Vietnam. On the University of Michigan’s campus, students and professors are gathered for a first-of-its kind protest event. They’re holding a “teach-in,” staying up all night to discuss what’s going on in Vietnam. How did the classroom become a powerful tool for protest? And what impact did this “teach-in” have in shaping the antiwar movement on college campuses—and around the world?Special thanks to our guests: Zelda Gamson, Alan Haber, Susan Harding, Richard Mann, Stan Nadel, Gayl Ness, Jack Rothman, Howard Wachtel, and Michael Zweig. Thanks al...
2022-03-2132 min
The San Francisco ExperienceThe Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. In conversation with Dr. Ellen SchreckerAmerican Universities in the 1960s were caught up tumultuous times. On the one hand, resources flowed liberally to expand the number of campuses and faculty to educate the Baby Boomers. But at the same time, academia was transformed as Civil Rights and Vietnam War protests brought a growing and unprecedented politicization to campuses across the country. Dr. Schrecker recounts her professional experience during the 1960s and the echoes of that era are still felt to this day.
2022-03-1238 min
Armchair HistoriansEllen Shrecker, Is Today's Anti-intellectualism Worse than McCarthyism?Send a textIn this episode, Anne Marie talks to Yeshiva University professor emerita Ellen Schrecker about the history leading up to today's anti-intellectualism.Ellen has been involved with the politics of higher education and academic freedom for decades. According to Ellen, the current right-wing campaign against teaching critical race theory and other so-called “divisive concepts” is by far the most serious threat to academic freedom (as well as K-12 education) the United States has ever experienced. Schrecker’s research and experience enable her to speak about the impact of these issues, as well as...
2022-03-0143 min
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life.Episode 95: The Lost Promise of American UniversitiesAmerican universities entered the 1960s with the hope of bringing a high-quality system of universal higher education to all comers. But by the early 1970s hope turned to despair as universities gave way to neoliberalism, corporatism, and a powerful conservative backlash. In this episode we talk with historian Ellen Schrecker about her new book The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2022-02-201h 17
Shared History078 - The Lost Promise of Higher Ed (feat. Dr. Ellen Schrecker)Is this a podcast potluck because our guest Dr. Ellen Schrecker brought us a buffet of tasty historical treats this week. Join us as we discuss her explore how America's unjust involvement in Vietnam and the Black Power and Civil Rights Movement forever changed the landscape and trajectory of the American higher education system. Then learn even more in her recent book: The Lost Promise: American Univiersities in the 1960s.Lewis Powell MemoVietnam War Teach Ins at University of MichiganBernard Fall on street with VN soldiersBulletin started by asian studies scholars...
2022-02-081h 08078 - The Lost Promise of Higher Ed (feat. Dr. Ellen Schrecker)Is this a podcast potluck because our guest Dr. Ellen Schrecker brought us a buffet of tasty historical treats this week. Join us as we discuss her explore how America's unjust involvement in Vietnam and the Black Power and Civil Rights Movement forever changed the landscape and trajectory of the American higher education system. Then learn even more in her recent book: The Lost Promise: American Univiersities in the 1960s.
Lewis Powell Memo
Vietnam War Teach Ins at University of Michigan
Bernard Fall on street with VN soldiers
Bulletin started by asian studies scholars...
2022-02-081h 08
Living in the USABreyer Will Retire: Harold Meyerson; Gustavo Arellano: the OC; & Ellen Schrecker: the '60sHarold Meyerson on The Supreme Court vacancy, and how things could get beter for the Dems.
Also: Gustavo Arellano on "A People's Guide to Orange County"
Plus Ellen Schrecker on "The Lost Promise: American Universities in the Sixties"
2022-01-2857 min
Impressions of America: History PodcastEllen Schrecker Interview - The Lost PromiseSimon, Tobi and Vaughn are joined by historian Ellen Schrecker to discuss her latest book The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s.
2022-01-221h 22
Start Making Sense ClipsEllen Schrecker on the ’60sAmerican universities in the ’60s: Was that a golden age destroyed by student radicals who were protesting the war in Vietnam and racism in America? For some answers we turn to historian Ellen Schrecker—her new book is The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
2022-01-2018 min
The Nation PodcastsCalifornia Dems’ Big Moves on Health Care: Sasha Abramsky; Ellen Schrecker on the ’60sThe paralysis of politics in Congress leads us to turn away from Washington and look at the states: What can the Democrats do when they control a state government? Like California? Democrats there are proposing dramatic changes in health care, expanding coverage to everyone below the federal poverty line–regardless of immigration status. Sasha Abramsky reports on that—and on the more radical proposal, also before the California legislature, to create a single-payer health-care system for all residents of California.Also: American universities in the ’60s: Was that a golden age destroyed by student radicals who were protes...
2022-01-2034 min
The Still Spying PodcastThe Bureaucratic Heart of McCarthyism feat. Ellen ShreckerThe Second Red Scare may have been named after the demagogic Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, but no one was more central to it than J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Host Chip Gibbons is joined by renowned historian Ellen Schrecker to discuss what McCarthyism was, how the FBI was central to it, and why if “observers known in the 1950s what they learned since the 1970s when Freedom of Information Act opened the Bureau's files, 'McCarthyism' would probably have been called 'Hooverism.'”
2021-01-2036 min
HISTORY This Week"Have You No Decency, Sir?"June 9, 1954. Senator Joseph McCarthy has accused the United States Army of having communists within its midst. After rising to power during a time of great fear in America, McCarthy's name has become synonymous with anti-communism – and with baseless, life-ruining accusations. But today, five simple words will take down one of the most notorious men in American political history. What made McCarthy so powerful in the first place? And how did that very same thing eventually bring him down?Thank you to our guest, Ellen Schrecker, historian, author and expert on McCarthyism. https://www.ellenschrecker.com/
2020-06-0824 min
Geschiedenis voor herbeginners17. Heksen - deel 2: Wat was het geloof in heksen?waarin we het fenomeen van de heksenprocessen van de vroegmoderne tijd analyseren en we ons afvragen of zoiets vandaag ook nog kan. WIJ ZIJN nog altijd: Jonas Goossenaerts (inhoud en vertelstem) en Filip Vekemans (montage) MEER WETEN? Onze geraadpleegde en geciteerde bronnen: A.-L., V. B. (2012). Differentiatie. In V. R. (Ed.), Een inleiding tot de geschiedenis van de vroegmoderne tijd (pp. 245–253). Wommelgem, België: Van In. Boelens, S. B., Geuens, K. G., Hosten, F. H., & Latré, B. L. (2015). Memoria 4. Kalmthout, België: Pelckmans. Spierenburg, P. (1998). De verbroken betovering: Mentaliteit en cultuur in preïndustr...
2020-04-2232 min
Geschiedenis voor herbeginners16. Heksen - deel 1: Heksenzelftest en de zaak-Lier versus Cathelyne Van den Bulckewaarin we jou de kans geven om in te schatten hoe waarschijnlijk jij als heks op de brandstapel zou belanden en we een waargebeurde heksenzaak reconstrueren.Met BIJDRAGEN van:Lilibet (Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II), Michiel van Boxel (zelftest), Tine Jellasics (toxandrologe Tamara Van de Perre), Thom Van Hol (Nijlens advocaat Thomas Van Hol), Arne Nys (scherpe ondervrager), Els Windelen (achterdochtige Lierenaar 1), Joke Van Nuffel (achterdochtige Lierenaar 2), Judith Milh (achterdochtige Lierenaar 3), Laurens Luyten (achterdochtige Lierenaar 4), Stef Vonk (achterdochtige Lierenaar 5), Jasper Van den Broeck (achterdochtige Lierenaar 6)malafide heksenschaterlachen van: Lieselot Van den Broeck, Aline Dorekens, Barbara Buls...
2020-04-2121 min
So to Speak: The Free Speech PodcastMcCarthyism and The Red Scare"Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?"On today's episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we explore how America's fear of communism in the early- to mid-20th century led to firings and blacklists in Hollywood, government, and higher education — and how these actions compromised America's treasured principles of free speech, free conscience, free association, and due process of law.We are joined by Ellen Schrecker, a former professor at Yeshiva University and the author of Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America and No Iv...
2020-01-021h 08
Advanced TV HerstoryCalculated Efforts to Preserve Power: TV Women Blacklisted The topic of Hollywood Blacklisting has recently added a chapter - the impact it had on the budding TV industry, and more specifically, women. Researched and backed by FBI files of author/scholar Dr. Carol Stabile (University of Oregon), this 4 episode series mentions names of talented women whose careers were maliciously ruined with the publication of Red Channels. Stabile delivers quotes, right from FBI files she's requested for more than a decade, that assert that many of the charges and allegations that smeared these progressive women were unfounded or made up. You'll also hear from...
2019-07-2638 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesThe End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies Panel DiscussionPanelists:
Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona
Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University
Andrew Gordon, Harvard University
Joseph Esherick, University of California San Diego
Sugata Bose, Harvard University
Lien-Hang Nguyen, Columbia University
Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago
Moderator: Karen Thornber, Harvard University Asia Center
Organized by: Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University
Co-Sponsored by:
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Harvard University Asia Center
Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies
Korea Institute
Mittal South Asia Institute
2018-10-042h 03
Misérables Vol. 4, Les by HUGO, VictorThe End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies Panel DiscussionPanelists:
Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona
Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University
Andrew Gordon, Harvard University
Joseph Esherick, University of California San Diego
Sugata Bose, Harvard University
Lien-Hang Nguyen, Columbia University
Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago
Moderator: Karen Thornber, Harvard University Asia Center
Organized by: Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University
Co-Sponsored by:
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Harvard University Asia Center
Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies
Korea Institute
Mittal South Asia Institute
2018-10-042h 03
The Mike McIntee Show - AM950 The Progressive Voice of MinnesotaThe Mike McIntee Show – May 23, 2018Ellen Schrecker of The Nation joins to talk Trump and McCarthyism. Dan Friedman joins for an interview and Roberto de la Riva joins to talk about Minneapolis slum lords, evictions, and rent.
2018-05-2453 min
A for Effort10 T for Thomas TeffersonIn which Harry and Mairead discuss McCarthyism and voting behaviour.
For more on McCarthyism, Harry recommends the book The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents by Ellen Schrecker and Phillip Deery.
For more on voting behaviour, Mairead recommends the book Democracy for Realists by Larry Bartels and Christopher Achen.
Our music is "Chop Shop (Instrumental)" by White Flowers, and our logo is by ei8htz.
2018-05-0300 min
American History TellersThe Cold War - An Ideological WarFor nearly 50 years, the United States and Soviet Union waged a global war of ideas fueled by politics, intrigue, and nuclear weapons. But how did the polarized ideologies of these two global powers threaten the existence of the entire world?This is Episode 1 of a six-part series on the Cold War. We’ll discover how the United States’ suspicion of communism not only led to a global stand-off, but threatened the freedom and democracy Americans so cherished at home.For more information on the subjects and themes discussed in the episode, see the book “Global Cold W...
2018-01-0338 min
Nostalgia TrapNostalgia Trap - Episode 63: Ellen SchreckerEllen Schrecker is an American historian whose work focuses on Cold War-era anti-communism. Her book Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America is a canonical treatment of the subject. In this interview, she discusses her upbringing, education, and the particular politics of the Ivy League during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s.
2017-04-2658 minNostalgia TrapNostalgia Trap - Episode 63: Ellen SchreckerEllen Schrecker is an American historian whose work focuses on Cold War-era anti-communism. Her book Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America is a canonical treatment of the subject. In this interview, she discusses her upbringing, education, and the particular politics of the Ivy League during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s.
2017-04-2658 min
Talk World RadioTalk Nation Radio: Ellen Schrecker on McCarthyism Then and NowEllen Schrecker is a retired professor of American history at Yeshiva University and a leading authority on McCarthyism. Her books include Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America and No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism in the Universities. We discuss the history of McCarthyism and its current manifestations.
See: https://www.ellenschrecker.com
2017-03-1429 min
American History Too!Episode 9 - McCarthy and the Second Red Scare
On episode nine of American
History Too! we turn our attention to a period in American history that has
become indelibly linked to one man: the Second Red Scare and Senator Joseph
McCarthy. But is McCarthy the be all and end all of anti-communism? What
influence did he really have? And were
there other figures in the United States who played more prominent and
important roles in creating what the historian David Caute called ‘the great
fear’? Is ‘Hooverism’ – or even ‘Nixonism’
– a better name to und...
2015-02-1437 min
Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsAmerican Inquisition: The Era of McCarthyism by Ellen SchreckerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/322739 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Inquisition: The Era of McCarthyism Author: Ellen Schrecker Narrator: Ellen Schrecker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 3, 2008 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: During the early years of the Cold War, the anticommunist witch hunt that we now call McCarthyism swept through American society. As we will discover, McCarthyism was much more than the career of the blustering senator from Wisconsin who gave it a name. It was the most widespread and longest-lasting episode of political repression in American history. Dozens of men...
2008-10-0303 min