For many, the Second Red Scare was a minor incident, a bump on the road toward achieving and fulfilling a twentieth-century liberal consensus marked by the triumphs of civil rights and the feminist ...

When, exactly, was America great? For as long as Donald Trump has touted the MAGA slogan, he has been cagey about the answer. But recent weeks have suggested a few possibilities. One is the Gilded Age ...

The new era of Trump authoritarianism is being called by many a new McCarthyism, but that is not a good analogy. It’s looking worse than the McCarthy period. A more accurate analogy is the Red Scare ...

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. “There is a ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Clay Risen about his new book, "Red Scare," which tells the story of McCarthyism based in part on newly declassified sources. A new book by journalist Clay Risen ...

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 Force So ...