>If there is a reason that dragging up Hiss and the
>Rosenbergs and all this crap is a bad idea if
>conducted in any other spirit that chilly and
>disinterested historical inquiry, it is because it
>still has, for most of those who know or care about
>it, the resonance it has back when it was a live
>issue.
>The R's & Hiss were never about Communism (Soviet
>Threat, Red Menace, etc.). Their cases were part of
>the attack on the New Deal and the welfare state: see,
>the New Dealers are all commie traitors!
As Harold Rosenberg said, turning the years 1932-1952 into the desert of "twenty years of treason."
>I don't say we should deny what's true, e.g., that JR was an
>atomic spy, if a bad one. But at this point liberalsim
>needs our defense, and there isn't even a Soviet Union
>around to associate with it. Pick your fights.
>Take it as read. Move
>fucking on. This is boring and pointless.
Amen. Amen. Amen.
The Sandwichman