The Great Purge encouraged Hook’s increasing ambivalence toward Marxism. In 1939, Hook formed the Committee for Cultural Freedom, a short-lived organization that set the stage for his postwar politics by opposing “totalitarianism” on the left

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But I have grown in my appreciation of how important it is for the church to have a communal sense of identity, and how hard that is to come by without something like a creed.