Alan M. Wald

Alan M. Wald is a professor emeritus of English Literature and American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and writer on 20th-Century American literature who focuses on the 20th-Century Literary Left.

censorship

Keeping Resistance Alive during McCarthyism: Chandler Davis and Academic Freedom at the University of Michigan

Alan M. Wald

Alan Wald, Steve Batterson and Peggie Hollingsworth | University of Michigan | – Making Michigan lecture series – Keeping Resistance Alive “In 1954, Chandler Davis was called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. His fellows on the stand were his colleagues Mark Nickerson and Clement L. Markert, and his student friends Edward […]

Jewish History

On Jewish Revolutionary Internationalism

Alan M. Wald

I. The Prisoner in the Dock ( Against the Current) – THE JEWISH REVOLUTIONARY Internationalist commitment to the indivisibility of justice was on full display in palpable if muted form on April 26, 1964. That day, in Pretoria, South Africa, a tall, handsome man stood boldly in the prisoner’s dock of the Supreme Court. Well […]

Bill of Rights

A Protest Against ‘Climate of Fear’ at U of Michigan over standing for Palestinian Rights

Alan M. Wald

A discussion is inhibited by the climate of fear that the administration has initiated on the campus by taking punitive action against instructors with no semblance of due process