BFA Visual and Critical Studies and the SVA Honors Program present noted American historian Ellen Schrecker to speak on political repression and the universities from McCarthyism to Trump. McCarthyism ...

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank welcome Ellen Schrecker to discuss the legacy of McCarthyism and the current right-wing attack on academic freedom in the U.S., ...

Reports on and from academe. At the end of her treatise The Lost Soul of Higher Education, Ellen Schrecker, professor of history at Yeshiva University, writes that “without an aware and energized ...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities’ Interpreting Capitalism series will continue this week with a lecture by historian Ellen Schrecker titled "Hired Education: Capitalism and the Academic ...

If nothing else, Roger L. Geiger's review of my book about McCarthyism and the universities, No Ivory Tower, shows how controversial the topic remains (The Scientist, December 15, 1986, p. 25). In his ...

I am writing to protest the CUNY Board of Trustees’ recent action to override the decision of John Jay College to offer an honorary degree to the playwright Tony Kushner. I am writing to protest the ...