Mock, but verify.
The mockable Ben Velderman.
Blogger and Florida professor Sherman Dorn suggests that some folks have made too much of the Wisconsin GOP’s FOIA requests of University of Wisconsin historian William Cronon’s emails.
Dorn rejects the suggestion that this development is a form of McCarthyism.
If I get it right, Professor Dorn thinks we should make a distinction between McCarthyism, which he describes as a state-run affair, and the current situation, which he compares to the goofy anti-intellectualism of David