eagues, including John von Neumann and Claude Shannon, who were interested in the commercialization of the new technologies. Second, computer pioneer John McCarthy disliked Wiener and refused to use Wiener’s term “Cybernetics.” McCarthy, in turn, coined the term “artificial intelligence” and became a founding fa

gical ones, especially Cold War restrictions that threatened the flow of information so critical to cybernetic systems: “Under the impetus of Senator [Joseph] McCarthy and his imitators, the blind and excessive classification of military information” was driving political leaders in the United States to adopt a “sec

eagues, including John von Neumann and Claude Shannon, who were interested in the commercialization of the new technologies. Second, computer pioneer John McCarthy disliked Wiener and refused to use Wiener’s term “Cybernetics.” McCarthy, in turn, coined the term “artificial intelligence” and became a founding fa

ical ones, especially Cold War restrictions that threatened the flow of information so critical to cybernetic systems: “Under the impetus of Senator [Joseph] McCarthy and his imitators, the blind and excessive classification of military information” was driving political leaders in the United States to adopt a “sec

ly cultivated a set of older mentors, including Roy Cohn, the flamboyant lawyer and fixer who had served as right-hand man to the red-baiting Senator Joe McCarthy. And then there was the harsh fact that the world of Manhattan and particular its living voice, the media, seemed to cruelly reject them. The media

nging from Murray Kempton in 1950 for his articles on labor in the south and Edward R. Murrow in 1954 for his critical reports on civil liberties and Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare; to 2017 newspaper winner, David Fahrenthold, for exposing Donald Trump’s sexual harassment and mismanagement of his

nging from Murray Kempton in 1950 for his articles on labor in the south and Edward R. Murrow in 1954 for his critical reports on civil liberties and Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare; to 2017 newspaper winner, David Fahrenthold, for exposing Donald Trump’s sexual harassment and mismanagement of his

nging from Murray Kempton in 1950 for his articles on labor in the south and Edward R. Murrow in 1954 for his critical reports on civil liberties and Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare; to 2017 newspaper winner, David Fahrenthold, for exposing Donald Trump’s sexual harassment and mismanagement of his

t Communism of being homosexual. This smear tactic was used against HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015096 --- PAGE BREAK --- Whittaker Chambers, against Senator Joseph McCarthy and against J. Edgar Hoover. In that vein, gossips used to rant about Hoover and Clyde Tolson double-dating with Charles “Bebe” Rebozo and myself. N

ay whom America fought in that war! More than a quarter wrongly believed Columbus sailed to the New World after 1750. Half didn’t know whom Senator Joseph McCarthy investigated. And a third had no clue the Bill of Rights is the source of freedoms of religion and speech. Nearly a third couldn’t tell you who said

orgenthau. Morgenthau had taken on mobsters and power brokers. He had repeatedly prosecuted Roy Cohn, the sleazy New York lawyer who had been Senator Joe McCarthy’s right-hand man. (One of Cohn’s clients and protégés was a young New York City real estate developer named Donald Trump.) When Cohn complained that