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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did ... But news reports and McCarthy’s prepared text suggest that he painted a dark picture of the Cold War.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.