Questioning Ohio's Loyalty Requirement

"Have you solicited any individual for membership in an organization on the U.S. Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List?" is the type of question that people in higher education dreaded receiving a half-century ago during the McCarthy era. Seventy or more professors were dismissed during those dark days, mostly because they refused, as a matter of conscience, to answer such queries. Since the 1960s, such invasive inquiries have been relegated to distant memory; few people still teaching

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