An unearthed John Steinbeck column probes the strength of U.S. democracy
Decades ago, as communists and suspected communists were being blacklisted and debates spread over the future of American democracy, John Steinbeck wrote about his homeland in Le Figaro.
NEW YORK — Decades ago, as communists and suspected communists were being blacklisted and debates spread over the future of American democracy, John Steinbeck — a resident of Paris at the time — often found himself asked about the headlines from his native country.
The question he kept hearing: "What about McCarthyism?"
The future Nobel Laureate wrote that the practice embodied by U.S.
