The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.

In Red Scare, Risen depicts McCarthyism as a ... Risen joins NPR's Steve Inskeep for a conversation about Senator Joseph McCarthy's personal and political opportunism, the enduring power of ...

Cohn served as chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, when the Wisconsin senator was riding roughshod over the ...

FADEL: The book is "Red Scare: Blacklists ... INSKEEP: What was the motivation of people like Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose name was given to the era, and others who were extreme anti-communists?

As book bans, loyalty oaths and blacklists became the norm, the House Un-American Activities Committee and later Senator Joseph ... s new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making ...

So the Red Scare was a period from roughly the end ... their enemies to raise their own profile. Ultimately, Joe McCarthy, senator from Wisconsin is the best example of this, and lent his name ...

At the height of the Red Scare, Margaret Chase Smith was willing to pay the price of taking on Joseph McCarthy. Clay Risen, a reporter at The New York Times, is the author of “Red Scare ...

Goldberg’s Red Scare analogy is accurate—but too narrowly ideological, blaming the political purge on right-wing troglodytes like Senator Joseph McCarthy. In truth, both Red Scares were ...

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. Larry Tye, a former Globe reporter, is the author of “Demagogue ...

They’re also part of the story told in Clay Risen’s Red Scare: Blacklists ... leanings—the most visible led by Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who in the early 1950s claimed he ...