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Under the banner of national security and patriotism, the “lavender scare” was an extension of the “red scare” as both sought to purge those seen as “morally corrupt,” “psychologically immature,” and a threat to national security (Friedman). While the Red Scare was a moral panic created by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in response to the perceivedContinue reading “Communists, Homosexuals, and Sexual Gossip: The Smearing of Sen. Joseph McCarthy”

After the end of World War II, the United States entered into a new, definitively undemocratic model of government: the national security state. The national security state is the rise in secretive “national security” bureaucracies that aid the executive branch in pinpointing actual or potential enemies, and designing private, covert plots and campaigns against thoseContinue reading ““Never Seen Anything Like It Before”: Sheep-Farmer’s and the National Security State”