Journalist, Author, and Educator

Sanford Ungar

2 articles 2017

Sanford Ungar is a journalist, author, and educator known for his work on civil liberties, the FBI, and media issues. He served as president of Goucher College and previously worked as a reporter and editor at The Washington Post. He contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard in 2017 touching on law enforcement history and related topics.

When the New Left Met the Old FBI

January 17, 2017 · magazine_repost, liberalism, FBI

It all seems a bit like an ugly fairy tale now—an allegory, set in the heady and hectic late 1960s and early '70s, of good versus evil, order versus chaos, revolution by dynamite sticks and law enforcement by black-bag jobs. This was, in retrospect, a match made in heaven: The Weather Underground…

In Circular Pursuit

January 13, 2017 · liberalism, Law Enforcement, FBI

It all seems a bit like an ugly fairy tale now—an allegory, set in the heady and hectic late 1960s and early '70s, of good versus evil, order versus chaos, revolution by dynamite sticks and law enforcement by black-bag jobs. This was, in retrospect, a match made in heaven: The Weather Underground…