t r u t h o u t | The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum

t r u t h o u t | The Origin of America’s Intellectual Vacuum
The blacklisted mathematics instructor Chandler Davis, after serving six months in the Danbury federal penitentiary for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), warned the universities that ousted him and thousands of other professors that the purges would decimate the country’s intellectual life.