Politics; December 7, 2016; Neo-McCarthyism and the New Cold War Neo-McCarthyism and the New Cold War The preceding Cold War generated a prolonged slurring and suppression of dissenting American ...

Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture , by Thomas Doherty. Columbia University Press, 305 pages, $27.95. It is often said that television came into its own as a polit… ...

The synthesis these liberal anti-communists arrived at was to oppose McCarthyism and communism simultaneously. They would ...

McCarthyism was a characteristic feature of the preceding Cold War, but now it is coming from liberals, even from the Clinton campaign.

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.

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 ...

The Cold War anti-Communists, though never loath to bash an intellectual, were not as hostile to the academic profession as today’s right-wing politicians and pundits are.

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, COOL MEDIUM: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture Thomas Doherty, . . Columbia Univ., $27.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-231-12952-7 ...