The Dies Committee

?This revision of the Dies Committee was completed under the impression that the murky record of the Committee was closed, several of its most aggressive members repudiated by their constituents, and the subject given to history. By a sudden tour de force, however, the Special Committee on Un-American Activities was given another lease on life. It deserves continued attention, if only for the light which it sheds on the function of the investigating committee in a democracy.?-Political Science Quarterly