I thought the Red Scare was a great way to examine that ... It’s the end of World War II, and we immediately find ourselves ...

The book “Policing Show Business” shows how Trump’s attacks on “radical leftists” are like a sequel to the Red Scare.

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and the MAGA movement.

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its ...

At the height of the Cold War, Canada joined its southern neighbour ... She and her family became a target for Quebecs Red Squads. "When I saw five strapping provincial police enter my home ...

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.

Simon & SchusterIn 1938, the US Congress interrogated theatre directors who produced plays for President Roosevelt's Federal ...

Instead he portrays the Red Scare as a cultural battle fueled by the tensions of the deepening midcentury Cold War. It is a conflict, he makes clear, that never truly abated. Risen compares the ...

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.

"Red Scare" takes us beyond the familiar story of ... and we immediately find ourselves as a country in the grips of the Cold War. It’s going to be a war fought through propaganda, through ...