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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 was passed amid anti-communist fears during the early Cold War. That period of history is the focus of the new book "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism ...

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.

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: ...

Others used the same Cold War comparison, pointing to the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his quest to root out those he called subversive. “They’re just bringing back old tactics here.

Still, as difficult as their position might have seemed, liberals managed to beat back McCarthyism and retain public confidence in their ability to handle the Cold War.