https://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2011/02/18/the-left-and-the-rosenberg-case-historian-staughton-lynd-inadvertently-reveals-their-real-concern/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 07:24:22 -0400<![CDATA[First, a note about Staughton Lynd for younger readers. In the late 1960’s and early 70’s, Lynd was somewhat of a household name. Life magazine, then the nation’s leading popular newsweekly, had a cover photo of Lynd and the radical activist Dave Dellinger being pelted with fake blood and eggs on its cover; along with Tom Hayden and the Communist Party historian Herbert Aptheker, Lynd took a trip to Vietnam in 1965-66, from which they returned extolling the virtues of Vietnamese Communism and urging U.S. unilateral withdrawal from the war. Lynd at the time was a Professor of History at Yale University. His activism and his trip to Hanoi led the university to not renew his teaching contract, and he was fired.  (Were he in a similar position today, he would be immediately offered a  Distinguished Professorship at scores of American universities.) Lynd was so popular among the Left, that when Lyndon B. Johnson was President, Students for Democratic Society offered a button, proclaiming “Lynd not Lyndon.”]]>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:37:07 -0500<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2011/02/18/the-left-and-the-rosenberg-case-historian-staughton-lynd-inadvertently-reveals-their-real-concern-n183605