The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its ...
Donald Trump’s return to the White House has plunged Washington into upheaval and anxiety, bringing loyalty tests and other efforts to purge government employees. This climate of fear recalls ...
Today’s legislative efforts against the Palestine solidarity movement bear a striking resemblance to McCarthyism in both ...
That period of history is the focus of the new book “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.” Author and reporter Clay Risen joins the show to discuss past ...
Who would believe Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency would be quoting a senior North Korean official accusing “the U.S. administration” of “McCarthyism”? That favorite word of American academics ...
McCarthyism of the early 1950s was the height of postwar anti-communism in America as Sen. Joseph McCarthy lambasted government agencies and the U.S. Army for being hot beds of communists.