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Joseph McCarthy

• February 23 -- McCarthy-Stalin: Just Two Mean Joes?
Felicia Lee surveys the history of the left-wing magazine Dissent and makes this odd comparison: "Started by a group of New York socialists and intellectuals fed up with what they saw as rampant complacency in American thought, Dissent, a quarterly journal, was devoted to slaying orthodoxies on the right and on the left in an era dominated by Joseph McCarthy and Joseph Stalin."

• July 25 -- The Times Catches Up With Times Watch
The Times finally corrects Chris Hedges’ July 1 story in which he falsely claims Sen. Joe McCarthy derailed the career of Stalin-supporting actor-activist Paul Robeson. As Times Watch noted on July 1: “Joe McCarthy had nothing to do with it, Hedges’ fantasies of ‘McCarthyism’ notwithstanding.”

• June 19 -- Reprieving the Rosenbergs
A Times editorial, “Remembering the Rosenbergs,” marks the 50th anniversary of the execution of the Soviet spies by admitting Julius Rosenberg was an atomic spy -- but then claims the couple were victims of an “injustice” wrought by “anti-Communist hysteria.”