In the book “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America,” Clay Risen details how the conspiracy-mongering and cultural backlash of that post-World War II period speak ...

His book, Red Scare, is about post-World War II America, but he says there's a throughline connecting that era to our current political moment.

The Red Scare Still Haunts America The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Clay Risen about his new book, "Red Scare," which tells the story of McCarthyism based in part on newly declassified sources.

After World War II, a network of conservative politicians, religious leaders, sympathetic journalists and like-minded organizations in the United States devised a plan. This plan sought to turn ...

Early in “Red Scare,” Clay Risen’s thorough, impassioned but even-handed study of Cold War hysteria in the U.S., the author makes a point of explaining what his subject is — and isn’t ...

Donald Trump is “the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s”—that’s what Princeton’s president Christopher Eisgruber said.

Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular history, has now tackled the familiar story of the Second Red Scare—the period after World War II, when the ...

There was a brief period termed the Red Scare around 1920, but after World War II, alarmists, conspiracy theorists, and opportunists fanned fear of the Soviets.

In the book “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America,” Clay Risen details how the conspiracy-mongering and cultural backlash of that post-World War II period speak ...

Early in “Red Scare,” Clay Risen’s thorough, impassioned but even-handed study of Cold War hysteria in the U.S., the author makes a point of explaining what his subject is — and isn’t ...

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and the MAGA movement.