...thing the American people know about Senator McCarthy," Irving Kristol noted in an oft-cited remark; "he, like them, is unequivocally anti-communist. About the spokesmen for American liberalism [the anti-anti-Communists], they feel they know no such thing. And with some justification." 76 Liberal...

...with a turn to religion and was climaxed with his famous statement in 1953 that "there is one thing the American people know about Senator McCarthy; he,...for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing."20 He then returned to England to found and coedit the journal Encounter, sponsored by the Congress...

...order to defend liberalism."5 It was a fatal error, Kristol held, that gave McCarthy his strength. "For there is one thing that the American people know about...liberalism they feel they know no such thing. And with some justification."6 This has been cited as evidence that Kristol endorsed McCarthy. Actually, he was attacking...

...its utterance. Kristol was speaking about Joseph McCarthy and about the liberals who denounced him: "There is one thing that the American people know about Senator McCarthy," Kristol said. "He, like them, is unequivocally anti-Communist. About the spokesmen for American liberalism,...

...know better than we do what we should read and hear and think. "There is one thing," wrote Irving, "that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: He, like them, is unequivocally antiCommunist. However, they feel they know no such thing about the spokesmen for American liberalism." By 1970, he...

...by the GPU during the Spanish Civil War?" Liberals had themselves to blame for McCarthy's rise: "For there is one thing that the American people know about...liberalism, they feel they know no such thing. And with some justification."57 Kristol was looking for something to disturb the smug assurance of liberals who felt...

...of 1947, that was just as bad. As Irving Kristol would explain six years later, "there is one thing the American people know about Senator McCarthy; he,...American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing." Although Murrow had helped destroy McCarthy, television executives were not nearly ready to bask in...

...communism."26 As a young Irving Kristol perceptively -wrote in the then-liberal journal Commentary in 1952, "There is one thing that the American people know...for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing."27 But McCarthy had a fatal flaw: He rarely listened to anyone, even his closest friends and...

...under the ACCF imprimatur): "There is one thing the American people know about Senator McCarthy: he is unequivocally anti-Communist. About the spokesmen...know no such thing. And with some justification." 27 The trouble with many of the ACCF's members, Michael believed, was that they were infected by the...

...Middle-of-the-road liberalism was seen as suspect. Irving Kristol, writing in Commentary in in 1952 said: There is one thing that the American people know about...liberalism, they feel they know no such thing.' And Lasch remarks how the anti-Communist hysteria generated a 'cultural vigilantism' which suppressed and...