The latest work of historical non-fiction from Meg Waite Clayton, 'Typewriter Beach,' looks at the hurdles women face in ...

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 ...

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 paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.

Like McCarthyism, the current wave of repression assumes the existence of a vast anti-American international conspiracy.

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.

BFA Visual and Critical Studies and the SVA Honors Program preset noted American historian Ellen Schrecker to speak on political repression and the universities from McCarthyism to Trump.. Ellen ...

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 ...

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.

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.