Posts By James Sheridan
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Political Education
Integrity
Dr. Deborah Birx was responsible for coordinating the previous administration’s White House coronavirus response. She recently made news when she admitted in a...
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Political Education
McCarthyism and the Media
Early news coverage of McCarthy’s charges worked in the Senator’s favor. Newsprint did not capture the wild man image that television did....
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Political Education
Republican Support for McCarthism
Senate Liberals feared that a unified Democratic denunciation of Senator Joseph McCarthy. They feared it would only result in the G.O.P. uniting...
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Political Education
The Liberal Response to McCarthyism
How did liberals respond in the McCarthy era, and how should they have responded? This question is still a source of controversy...
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Political Education
Elements of McCarthyism
Most textbook and encyclopedia definitions of McCarthyism refer to unsupported and unfair accusations against innocent parties. McCarthyism has been considered a style...
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Political Education
The McCarthy Era
Joseph R. McCarthy was elected United States Senator from Wisconsin in 1948 following his upset victory over ‘Young Bob’ LaFollette in the...
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Politics
The Patty Hearst Brain Washing Defense
Authoritarian political cults such as Qanon not only indoctrinate their members with conspiracy theories but have also moved some of those cult...
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Elections
The fault is not in our stars…
In his play ‘Julius Caesar’ William Shakespeare has one of his characters say, “The fault… is not in our stars, But in...
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Political Education
Free Reality Winner
In 2017, Reality Winner, a contractor with the NSA, leaked information about Russian interference in the U.S. elections to the media. She...
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Political Education
“Typhoid Mary”- an Asymptomatic Carrier
In 1907, New York City experienced a typhoid outbreak that may have been caused by an asymptomatic carrier known by the moniker...