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 ...

This second iteration of McCarthyism is hurting many more people, businesses, and the country as a whole than in the 1950s. Janelle Heck, Millcreek. Submit a letter to the editor.

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

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...