"And so, after their disingenuous claim of ideological and forensic neutrality, and after damning the 'marginalization' of leftists as Soviet sympathizers, they proceed to marginalize—virtually indict and convict—a hitherto untainted liberal as a 'Soviet asset' in order to prove Hiss was not one.
"Astonishingly, they do so by doing exactly what Nixon, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Joe McCarthy did: rely heavily on guilt by association.
"I have to admit I was stunned."
Ron Rosenbaum in Slate criticizes a recent paper by Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya in The American Scholar calling the guilt of Alger Hiss into question.
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