Over the course of this year, the centenary of William F. Buckley’s birth, we will republish an article by him weekly. This week’s piece recounts the heroic effort of a school superintendent to keep Communist materials out of his school district.
Thomas E. Harney is the superintendent of public schools in a small town in northern New York called Dunkirk. It is not self-evident, Mr. Harney maintains, that it cannot happen here; hence he, for one, proposes to do everything in his power to expose native Communists, pro-Communists and party-liners, especially when they step over into his territory, which is education.
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