McCarthyism squelched most serious criticism of American society and of the government’s conduct of the Cold War. Even after it disappeared from the main stage, the political timidity that it ...

The few indictments seen during the Cold War targeted communists — most notably, W.E.B. Dubois was prosecuted under FARA in 1951 as an agent of the Soviet Union for petitioning against the ...

McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage. But the movement was bigger than Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen, Scribner, 480 pages, $31 Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular ...

Cold War. McCarthyism, Past—and Present? Clay Risen's Red Scare book wrongly frames it as an exclusively conservative hysteria.. Brandan P. Buck | From the July 2025 issue ...

McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage. But the movement was bigger than Senator Joseph McCarthy.

He was a Cold War opportunist. As legendary broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow said of McCarthy: “He didn’t create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully.” ...

Neither did Bob Dole, wounded war hero and presidential aspirant. Ron Michaelson, who has served for 22 years as director of the Illinois elections board, said the oath not only lives, but seems ...

Trump is bringing back McCarthyism to go after Mahmoud Khalil. The current administration wants to go after protesters using an obscure Cold War-era statute.

Schrecker is the author of many books about the McCarthy era, Cold War politics and right-wing attacks on academic freedom. Her recent piece for The Nation is headlined “Worse Than McCarthyism: ...