The Committee that Lost its Reason

The Committee for Cultural Freedom, now defunct, was never truly alive. It was more afraid of anti-Communism than of Communism. Here is documentary proof of the Committee’s fatal dereliction

Late in February, the American Committee for Cultural Freedom suspended activities. Although five hundred of the nation’s leading intellectuals adorned it, there was no money; not enough, evidently, to pay for a small office, a typist, and a full-time director, which is all the Committee needed for its business.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

The Committee for Cultural Freedom, now defunct, was never truly alive. It was more afraid of anti-Communism than of Communism. Here is documentary proof of the Committee’s fatal dereliction

Late in February, the American Committee for Cultural Freedom suspended activities. Although five hundred of the nation’s leading intellectuals adorned it, there was no money; not enough, evidently, to pay for a small office, a typist, and a full-time director, which is all the Committee needed for its business.