Clay Risen’s Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America remains true to this principle. Providing a wealth of engaging detail that underscores how different the mid-20th ...

On this episode of Start Making Sense, historian Beverly Gage compares Trump’s attacks on universities with those of the McCarthy Era, and Jeff Kisseloff argues that Whittaker Chambers lied about a ...

Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn at a HUAC hearing.(Getty Images) “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” So begins L.P. Hartley’s masterful novel of love and memory, The ...

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 ...

Dasha Nekrasova is an actress and political commentator who co-hosts the popular Red Scare podcast. She is also a victim of one of the more bizarre cancel culture stories in recent memory. Over time, ...

The daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter who was imprisoned and blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare has decried Florida's new social studies teaching standards that other critics have ...

It took 50 years for the secret transcripts of the McCarthy hearings to be released. Within these relics of the Red Scares, you can read all manner of hostile interactions, with people doing their ...

A conversation with Tariq D. Khan, author of The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression, out from University of Illinois Press in 2023. In this ...

This is Echoes in the Quad’s third article in a three-part series exploring how McCarthy-era political oppression reverberates through higher ed today. Read the first part here and the second part ...