In 1954, the United States Senate famously censured its most notorious member — Wisconsin Republican Joe McCarthy. McCarthy had been on the trail of Communists in government — and there were, indeed, some of those — but had finally overstepped…

Enough is enough. But let’s start with another riveting moment in American history. This one. The scene: the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, infamous on the Left for Senator Joseph McCarthy’s search for Communists in government, had reached a peak of tension….