Some Things Never Change

[arisbe]

"The faculty at Bard College, a liberal arts school at Annandale, NY, includes a scholar who glories in the title Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies..."

I applied to Bard and got in, but after a brief visit, attended Earlham unseen.

Today they are much the same, though Bard may be a bit more tolerant of ideological eccentricity.

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"Treason" is in the eye of the beholder.

[publius-aelius.livejournal.com]

Robert E. Lee was a "traitor" to something, and so were the Founding Fathers. The Jesuits who disobeyed the murderous heretic Elizabeth Tudor in order to bring the Catholic Sacraments back to England have been called "traitors" by English historiagraphers, but I deem them to have been saints and heroes. These communist "fellow travelers" and spies thought they were "saving democracy"--which to them included social democracy--from the threat of fascist, capitalist terrorism. They are to be judged in the context of their times, not ours. And when that is done, there are many working class people all over the world who'd consider them worthy of the mausoleums in Red Square some of 'em got.