Genuinely Un-American: Socialists are telling us who they are — and we should believe them
At a 2005 party for American Prometheus, Kai Bird’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, discussion about the great man, father of the atom bomb, turned toward his suffering during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s. He had come under official suspicion and was hounded for his communist sympathies and friends, some of whom were Soviet spies.
- ▪At a 2005 party for American Prometheus, Kai Bird’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J.
- ▪Robert Oppenheimer, discussion about the great man, father of the atom bomb, turned toward his suffering during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s.
- ▪He had come under official suspicion and was hounded for his communist sympathies and friends, some of whom were Soviet spies.
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At a 2005 party for American Prometheus, Kai Bird’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, discussion about the great man, father of the atom bomb, turned toward his suffering during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s. He had come under official suspicion and was hounded for his communist sympathies and friends, some of whom were Soviet spies. Recommended Stories How the DSA turned support for Israel into grounds for expulsion Why therapy is making America more polarized Reading is now a crime in Hong Kong At a point in this conversation more than 20 years ago, an English journalist said he did not understand why Americans won’t or can’t see socialism simply as one among many possible forms of government to choose from, but regard it instead as wholly…
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