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With the rise of [[radical left-wing]] politics and the so-called [[New Left]] in the '60s, Hiss became a [https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1996/11/24/an-american-melodrama.html darling] of the Establishment's lecture and [https://files.nyu.edu/th15/public/brower.html New York cocktail-party circuit], and a sought-out speaker [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/hiss.html on college campuses].<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 275, n. 45</ref> In 1981, Bard College established an [http://dlib.nyu.edu/eadapp/transform?source=tamwag/haury.xml&style=tamwag/tamwag.xsl&part=body Alger Hiss Distinguished Professorship] in Social Studies, formerly held by "[http://www.joelkovel.com/newreadings.html#ecosocialism1 eco-socialist]"<ref>Kovel defines his ideology as Marxian communism—the "realization" of what he calls "'first-epoch' socialism" (that is, "neither more nor less than the [http://www.joelkovel.com/messages.html#socialism original announcement of the ''Communist Manifesto'']")—not in pursuit of "unfettered productivity" ''à la'' Marx, but to further fetter productivity in the interest of environmentalism.</ref> Joel Kovel, who declared that America's obsession with anti-Communism during the Cold War led the U.S. to become “the [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/in-denial-by-john-earl-haynes-and-harvey-klehr-9668 enemy of humanity].” By the time Nixon died in 1994, ''Foreign Policy'' magazine could assign the task of reviewing his posthumous book, ''Beyond Peace'', to his embittered foe, [[George McGovern]], who took the opportunity to avenge his humiliating [http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1972&off=0&f=1 49-state landslide defeat] by Nixon, writing (without explanation), "The evidence that Hiss was a security risk to the United States simply is not convincing," labeling Hiss's conviction "dubious," and suggesting that Nixon's "prosecution of Alger Hiss probably belongs on the same level" as "political demagoguery of the worst sort—unscrupulous attacks on the patriotism of deeply devoted [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-15842448.html public servants of the first rank]."<ref>Former Kennedy administration official Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. would use remarkably similar words the following year to defend [[#refHaynes08|Soviet agent]] Laurence Duggan as "an [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=9704&week=c&msg=zRT5drfjEeXIWFvFkKCqww&user=&pw= able public servant]."</ref>
With the rise of [[radical left-wing]] politics and the so-called [[New Left]] in the '60s, Hiss became a [https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1996/11/24/an-american-melodrama.html darling] of the Establishment's lecture and [https://files.nyu.edu/th15/public/brower.html New York cocktail-party circuit], and a sought-out speaker [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/hiss.html on college campuses].<ref>[[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 275, n. 45</ref> In 1981, Bard College established an [http://dlib.nyu.edu/eadapp/transform?source=tamwag/haury.xml&style=tamwag/tamwag.xsl&part=body Alger Hiss Distinguished Professorship] in Social Studies, formerly held by "[http://www.joelkovel.com/newreadings.html#ecosocialism1 eco-socialist]"<ref>Kovel defines his ideology as Marxian communism—the "realization" of what he calls "'first-epoch' socialism" (that is, "neither more nor less than the [http://www.joelkovel.com/messages.html#socialism original announcement of the ''Communist Manifesto'']")—not in pursuit of "unfettered productivity" ''à la'' Marx, but to further fetter productivity in the interest of environmentalism.</ref> Joel Kovel, who declared that America's obsession with anti-Communism during the Cold War led the U.S. to become “the [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/in-denial-by-john-earl-haynes-and-harvey-klehr-9668 enemy of humanity].” By the time Nixon died in 1994, ''Foreign Policy'' magazine could assign the task of reviewing his posthumous book, ''Beyond Peace'', to his embittered foe, [[George McGovern]], who took the opportunity to avenge his humiliating [http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1972&off=0&f=1 49-state landslide defeat] by Nixon, writing (without explanation), "The evidence that Hiss was a security risk to the United States simply is not convincing," labeling Hiss's conviction "dubious," and suggesting that Nixon's "prosecution of Alger Hiss probably belongs on the same level" as "political demagoguery of the worst sort—unscrupulous attacks on the patriotism of deeply devoted [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-15842448.html public servants of the first rank]."<ref>Former Kennedy administration official Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. would use remarkably similar words the following year to defend [[#refHaynes08|Soviet agent]] Laurence Duggan as "an [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=9704&week=c&msg=zRT5drfjEeXIWFvFkKCqww&user=&pw= able public servant]."</ref>
The few remaining pro-Hiss individuals stress: 1) a conspiracy theory that the typewriter was potentially faked by the FBI in order to plant evidence on Hiss, 2) that the ALES messages also potentially match former State Department and United Nations staffer Wilder Foote, 3) various minor inconsistencies in Chambers' statements, as proof of Hiss' innocence.<ref>See generally: https://algerhiss.com/</ref>
==Death==
==Death==