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

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

William F. Buckley Jr.’s influence has been overstated, writes Bruce Fein in a review of a new biography of the late conservative thinker.

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 new McCarthy Era, like the old, has seen brazenly illegal jailings and deportations, false accusations with no evidence, and the destruction of professional careers — this time magnified ...

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

Hannah Arendt was teaching at Berkeley when McCarthyism took hold of the United States. She found the outrage, fear and chilling effect similar to her experiences in 1930s Germany: “They are ...

Twenty-five years ago, William Hayes and Sue Ellen Beryl noticed a lack of original, thought-provoking plays on the local ...

For a century, this small Tennessee town in Rhea County just north of Chattanooga has been known as “Monkey Town USA” in reference to the famous 1925 Scopes trial that pitted religion vs. evolution in ...