Talks · 24 Sept 2020Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought- 1:35:57A nuisance to the CIA's intellectual agenda; Arendt is hostile to him.
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated institutions including the United States federal government and military, universities, and the film industry. […]
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Talks · 24 Sept 2020Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought