My article in The Free Beacon on a new exhibit on the Hollywood blacklist:
Free Beacon Arts, Culture & Opinion
REVIEW: ‘Blacklisted: An American Story’ at the Capital Jewish Museum
By Ronald Radosh
The Hollywood Blacklist Gets Whitewash
@HeerJeet I just came across your column on the article Sol Stern and I wrote about him in 2021 for TNR. Now I'm writing about him again for The Bulwark.
My review of Clay Risen's new book:
https://t.co/NhxdpyFLjM
Politics
Red Spies and Lies
Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.
Ronald Radosh
@bobdylan Wald's book is great--the best portrait of the entire scene back then that I've read. So is David Browne's new book "Talkin' Greenwich Village." Read that too. Then you'll be ready for the film.
Judging by the trailers, Timothee Chalamet is terrific.
In today's Atlantic, historian Maurice Isserman has an excellent article on the failure of American Communism and its lessons for today's left, which seems to be replicating all its worst features:
https://t.co/KS2dVEZxvU
Don't miss Susie Linfield's brilliant essay on the "root causes" argument made by Israel's critics on the current crisis in Gaza. This is important MUST reading:
https://t.co/kviJqUeT1h
Then read Pete Wehner's column on the end of the old conservative GOP and why true conservatives must now support Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
https://t.co/TF4sTnwtTb
I am critical of aspects of Jacob Heilbrunn's new book "America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators," but it is an important and timely book:
https://t.co/x2BLK0k3G2
The New Antisemitism https://t.co/p9OTILfuuU
Finally, Prof. Noah Feldman gives us an essential article explaining the rise again of antisemitism, and defends Israel and takes apart its critics. Must reading!