The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe.

National Review | September 29, 1989| | Copyright

Writing in The Nation in 1967,

Christopher Lasch presented

what became the generally accepted judgment on the Congress for Cultural Freedom. According to Lasch, the Congress published works that served "as rationalizations of American world power," held meetings that preached "the immorality of neutralism," and worked with liberals whose views were " indistinguishable from those of the Right." The American branch of the Congress was, Lasch wrote, "a coalition of liberals and reactionaries who shared a conspiratorial view of Communism." These intellectuals may have ...

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