History can inform us, but we are always on future’s doorstep. Gene is a retired lawyer, former history professor, occasional journalist. Contact him at [email protected].

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.

Since Donald Trump retook office on January 20, he’s weaponized the federal government to execute his war on “woke,” targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, LGBTQ+ rights, and ...

The RKP Production follows senator Joseph McCarthy’s abuses of power during the Red Scare’s anti-communist crackdown and ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently pledged to “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese international students, just days after Donald Trump attempted to strongarm Harvard into banning all ...

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 ...