The ouster of New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma: Th…

Was Joe McCarthy’s life ruined when he was censored [sic] by the Watkins Committee? Was the Watkins Committee an Inquisition that took away Joe McCarthy’s rights as an elected Senator? Was the end of Senator McCarthy’s grip over the senate really so tragic? How long can you go to war for capitalism and capitalist ideology and capitalist politics and still call yourselves Socialists? Why do you fight every Watkins Committee for every Joe McCarthy?