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M. Stanton Evans has watched conservatives come and go for 50 years, and has long lamented their tendency to catch "Potomac fever" as soon as they come to power. "When our people get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being our people," he said in enunciating what he calls "Evans' Law of Politics." Through good times and bad, Mr. Evans has used his syndicated columns, his books and his whiskey-wry humor to steady the spirits of fellow conservatives for 50 years. "I was never for Nixon until Watergate," he once told a press conference...

WASHINGTON – A long history of fumbling the war against internal subversion in the post–World War II era led to a fatal "mindset" that may have foiled the nation's last clear chance to prevent the terrorist attacks against America Sept. 11, says author and journalist M. Stanton Evans. Unveiling for the first time charts obtained from FBI files revealing the bureau's fruitless attempts to warn various government agencies of the communists in government during and after the Cold War, Evans told a student audience over the weekend that influential figures in and out of government kept the lid on the...

One of the highlights of the Conservative University conference that Accuracy in Academia recently held was the image of veteran journalist M. Stanton Evans delivering his talk on the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wisc., to an audience which included a lawyer from the ACLU. Evans, who is becoming as accomplished an historian as he is a writer on current events, has come to the conclusion that the crusading anti-communist was wronged by his critics and, hence, by history itself particularly in textbooks. The ACLU, of course, has long held otherwise. The former newspaper editor and syndicated columnist is determined...

<p>The conservative movement has scored historic gains but has yet to achieve several of its basic goals.</p> <p>That's the verdict of some of its founding fathers (and one important mother).</p> <p>"We won the battle against communism, but I guess we've largely lost the battle against big government," says Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly, 79, who defied conventional wisdom by leading a women's crusade that defeated the Equal Rights Amendment in the mid-1970s.</p>

To The Editor: A pretty good rule of thumb for judging media comment on Joe McCarthy is that people who most vociferously deplore him seldom know the facts of record. Vide the recent Dorothy Rabinowitz piece in the Journal attacking Ann Coulter’s new book Treason and its McCarthy chapters. In her double-barreled blast against McCarthy/Coulter, Ms. Rabinowitz makes statements that indicate extensive ignorance of McCarthy’s doings and can but compound prevailing myths about him. One need go no further to see the point than the first of the McCarthy cases Rabinowitz refers to, and that Coulter discusses in her book:...

The Letter the Wall Street Journal Refused to RunI Dare Call It Treason | Sample Audio from Treason | Treason on CD TREASON: NOW AVAILABLE! Slander: Hardcover | Audio CD | Large Print High Crimes: In Paperback! The Letter the Wall Street Journal Refused to RunTo The Editor: A pretty good rule of thumb for judging media comment on Joe McCarthy is that people who most vociferously deplore him seldom know the facts of record. Vide the recent Dorothy Rabinowitz piece in the Journal attacking Ann Coulter’s new book Treason and its McCarthy chapters. In her double-barreled blast against...

Editor Taints Recently Published Hearings How Senate Historian Botched Data on McCarthy By M. Stanton Evans The more we learn about the executive hearings on subversion held 50 years ago by Sen. Joe McCarthy (R.-Wis.), unveiled this month for public viewing, the more bizarre the tale becomes. Though mostly covering the same terrain as did public probes run by McCarthy in ’53 and ’54, these 4,000-plus pages of closed-door sessions contain a lot of added information and should be a great resource for scholars. Assuming, that is, that anyone actually bothers to read them—rather than relying on the gloss supplied...

<p>Conservative activists fear that they are not exercising as much influence on the Bush White House as they did in previous Republican presidencies.</p> <p>In a memo to hundreds of fellow conservatives, a former Reagan administration official says traditional views are being edged out by a neoconservative "national greatness" ideology that accepts big government and advocates interventionist foreign policy.</p>

In a key step toward unravelling the secret history of the Cold War, the U. S. Senate last week released 50-year-old executive hearings on subversion and internal security matters conducted by Sen. Joe McCarthy (R.-Wis.). Running to more than 4,000 pages, these hearings are crammed with backstage data on a host of once-torrid issues—including controversial McCarthy sessions on the Voice of America, United States Information Agency libraries, State Department personnel, and the Army Signal Corps installation at Fort Monmouth, N.J., to name a few. The last is of special interest as it was the prelude to the famous Army-McCarthy fracas...

I think this is pretty interesting. ---------------------- Unlearning The Liberal History Lesson: Some Thoughts Concerning Conservatism and Freedom M. Stanton Evans Let me begin by saying that, as a former student of Ludwig von Mises, I feel greatly honored by the invitation to give this lecture. This is the second time I have been asked to give a talk in this particular series, and I am sensible of the fact that both the man for whom these lectures are named, and the other speakers who have graced this platform, have set impressive standards of intellectual rigor. The point is apposite,...