Exhuming McCarthy

"I'm not suggesting a witchhunt," Heidel explained. "Think of it as restoring a natural balance. People like Dorothea Agnew, they're the ones who do the persecuting."

"And you're the one who's persecuted."

Heidel spread his hands. "My promotion was held up by faculty committees three years in a row. There are starting Assistants making five thousand more a year than I do. And I'm hardly the only one."

Madden made another note for the mental file. Things were becoming clearer to him.