Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular history, has now tackled the familiar story ...

In Red Scare, Risen depicts McCarthyism as a cultural witch hunt against all kinds of people, not just potential communist spies. And he argues that the Red Scare was part of a broader cultural ...

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism. Even before the Trump/Musk ...

“Apartments are wrecked, awful truths muttered, infidelities brought to light,” and Garner moves on, ready to notice the details of whatever life brings next. Like many women of her ...

“His life has been building the Republican ... chemicals out of your body to return to being a normal human.” On Instagram, where Mr. McCarthy recently shared pictures of his dogs hanging ...

He is gay and Jewish, and this is the McCarthy era in Hollywood so danger ... ‘Desperate mom moves charismatic child out to Los Angeles. Spends life savings. Gets nowhere. Moves back home ...

Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly Two stories. I suppose they have to do with navigating one’s professional life, though they could apply personally too. One stayed with me for decades ...

never been equaled in American life with regard to higher education.” Schrecker is the author of many books about the McCarthy era, Cold War politics and right-wing attacks on academic freedom.

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 ...