Have You No Sense of Decency? Themes
Betrayal
Cassius, Judas, Benedict Arnold, Nicholas Brody, Lando Calrissian—history's filled with traitors. Nobody's more despised than a turncoat. Try putting a Yankees bumper sticker on your car in South...
Compassion and Forgiveness
The sic 'em Senator and his minions were known to be ruthless bullies, who believed that anyone with Communist sympathies deserved no compassion. And they believed almost everyone had Communist sym...
Fear
It wasn't called the "Red Frolic." It was the Red Scare. During the Cold War Era, Americans were terrified about a Communist takeover, as they saw increasing Soviet influence around the globe and f...
Patriotism
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." That's Samuel Johnson writing in 1775 about false patriotism, but he could have been talking about 1954, when McCarthy's brand of flag-waving, take-n...
Freedom and Tyranny
The beauty of America is that we're allowed to act stupid. Want to publish a newspaper claiming that Justin Timberlake is an alien? No problem. Want to dress up like an organic cucumber to protest...