Editing Monthly Review (section)

===McCarthy period===
During the era of [[McCarthyism]] in the early 1950s, editors Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman were targeted for "subversive activities". Sweezy's case, tried by [[New Hampshire Attorney General]], reached the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] and became a seminal case on [[freedom of speech]] when the Court ruled in his favor.<ref name=NYTimesObit/>

In 1953, the ''Monthly Review'' added veteran radical [[Scott Nearing]] to the magazine's ranks. From that date and for nearly 20 years Nearing authored a column descriptively entitled "World Events". During the Truman and Eisenhower years, many left-wing intellectuals found a space for their work in the magazine, including a number that would gain in stature in the ensuing liberalized decade, such as pacifist activist [[Staughton Lynd]] (1952), historian [[William Appleman Williams]] (1952), and sociologist [[C. Wright Mills]] (1958).<ref name=phelps18>{{Cite journal | last1 = Phelps | first1 = C. | doi = 10.14452/MR-051-01-1999-05_1 | title = Introduction: A Socialist Magazine in the American Century | journal = Monthly Review | volume = 51 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–21 | year = 1999 }} p. 18-19.</ref>