A Bogus Evenhandedness

A Bogus Evenhandedness
The Department of Justice (DOJ) logo is pictured on a wall after a news conference in a file photo. Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Paul Gottfried
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A recent column by National Review editor Rich Lowry reminded me of a recurrent theme in Jean-Francois Revel’s “How Democracies Perish,” a brilliant, scathing attack on journalists and academics who were squishy soft on the communists at the height of the Cold War.
Paul Gottfried
Paul Gottfried
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Paul Gottfried is editor in chief of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He is also the Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College, where he taught for 25 years, a Guggenheim recipient, and a Yale Ph.D. He is the author of 14 books, most recently “Antifascism: Course of a Crusade” (2021), and numerous articles and book reviews.
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