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A NYT Week in Review article examines the legitimacy of McCarthyism in light of information recently recovered from Soviet records.
Democrats persuasively called Livingston's resignation "a surrender to a developing sexual McCarthyism," portrayed Clinton as a fellow victim of this McCarthyism, and argued that Clinton should be spared expulsion as a first step toward ending the madness.
Both the USAT front page "cover story" and an inside story at the Post refer to the newly poisoned atmosphere as "sexual McCarthyism."
But this bit of gratuitous groveling pales next to the sins of others--both those who remained Stalinists into the 1950s and those who did not just acquiesce in, but advocated, McCarthyism.
Tanenhaus accuses Chambers of having inadvertently instigated McCarthyism, and "shows us Chambers' paranoia, his introversion, his sententiousness" (Stephen Koch, the Wall Street Journal ). (Also, see Slate's mildly critical review by Ann Douglas.)