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Entry: Stan Should Have Seen It Coming Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/stan_should_have_seen_it_coming#15252 Post contents: Defenders of McCarthy, like Willmoore Kendall in the halcyon National Review days of the 1950s, used to attack the senator's opponents on the grounds that they had an unrealistic concept of society as "open" to all questions, a tolerance which Tailgunner Joe allegedly violated in his persecution of the Reds. Kendall's view was that there is no such thing as openness to all questions: every society has a consensus which puts limits on discussion. Judging from the recent imbroglio over Evans' book, it is apparent that Kendall gave the anti-McCarthy left too much credit: they were no more "open" to ideas than Stalin or Mao. Paul and I would agree that the neocons who kiboshed Bradford showed a similar lack of openness to ideas. Woe to anyone who heretically questions the consensus fashioned by Fox and CNN. (Just look at what happened to Ron Paul when he praised DiLorenzo's studies of Lincoln.) Sent at: 2008 05 16