The American gulf is widening

The truth under assault

“Truth made you a traitor,” wrote Lillian Hellman, “as it often does in a time of scoundrels. But there were very few who stood up to say so…”

The playwright told the story of her encounter with the federal government’s spell of anti-Communist paranoia in the late 1940s and early ‘50s in a brief memoir (her third) entitled Scoundrel Time.

Her quote about …