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New at Reason: Cathy Young has the last word on the late Elia Kazan.

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[Jean Bart]

Well what is problematic about the hearings (at least as far they looked at Hollywood - the issue is a bit different when it comes to government employees perhaps) is that they were largely designed to investigate the political beliefs of people. Now, maybe some people find communist beliefs to be so dangerous as to require such investigations, but I am of the opinion that political beliefs are the last thing that the government should be investigating, even so-called "dangerous beliefs."

[fyodor]

Cathy Young's laudable desire to fairly present both sides often leaves me feeling like I've been on a see-saw, but I generally agree with this piece, which does a decent job of summing up both sides of a complicated issue in a short space. I do wonder: what kind of "aid and comfort" was given to Stalinism by Kazan's denouncers? While trying to insert procommunist messages into movies is stupid just because supporting communism is stupid, isn't that within a movimaker's 1st Amendment rights? Unless he's sending coded messages to those actually performing espionage of course, which I doubt was ever the issue. Was the naming of names before the committee done in public or in private? If in public, that would seem to help confirm that purpose of the hearings was not to investigate but to intimidate....

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