M.S.: Throughout the Red Scare, there’s this culture of fear that created self-censorship in workplaces, universities, and the media, which we’re also seeing today amid fears of funding cuts ...

The Red Scare unfolded amid all of this other incredible political activity, including the civil rights movement and the push for women’s rights. How did it affect these causes?

Beverly Gage reviews “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America,” by Clay Risen.

They’re also part of the story told in Clay Risen’s Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, which argues that the Cold War–era campaigns to purge the United ...

Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on newly declassified sources. In Red Scare, Risen depicts McCarthyism as a cultural witch hunt against ...

FADEL: The book is "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, And The Making Of Modern America," and it's based in part on newly declassified sources. Risen spoke with our cohost, Steve Inskeep.

Early in “Red Scare,” Clay Risen’s thorough, impassioned but even-handed study of Cold War hysteria in the U.S., the author makes a point of explaining what his subject is — and isn’t ...

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s. By Kevin Peraino Kevin Peraino is the author, most recently, of “A ...

In "American Scare," Fieseler writes about a period in Florida toward the end of McCarthyism, when a legislative inquest ...