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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 nation's ...

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

Federal Judge William Young’s recent words from the bench sounded a lot like Joseph Welch’s famous rebuke of Senator Joe ...

Pete Mitchell’s “In America” column appears every other Tuesday. He lives in Geneva. Contact him at [email protected].

Why McCarthyism was familiar to Hannah Arendt. Clip: 6/27/2025 | 2m 1s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Hannah Arendt was teaching at Berkeley when McCarthyism took hold of the United States.

Even though today’s assault on the university is immeasurably worse than McCarthyism, similarities do exist. Both repressive movements emerged from the efforts of powerful right-wing forces to ...

In truth, both Red Scares were ignited by liberal Democrats—Woodrow Wilson during World War I and Harry Truman during the Cold War—although the rise of McCarthyism in the 1940s and ’50s ...

Every business and nonprofit in Nebraska will soon have to attest that they do not work for adversaries like China under a ...

The Media Spawned McCarthyism. Now History Is Repeating Itself. 9 minute read. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate, in February 1954.

What made liberals vulnerable to McCarthyism was the fact that some communists really did insinuate themselves into the government during the New Deal.