Book reviews: ‘Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America’ and ‘How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978–1998’ The Week is part of Future US Inc, an ...

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.

If these early Red Scare battles hold any lesson for our time, it’s how quickly people tend to capitulate at moments of intense political pressure, when careers and reputations and institutions ...

Book reviews: ‘Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America’ and ‘How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978–1998’ The Week is part of Future US Inc, an ...

Video Clip: The Rosenberg Trial (1:17) Explain the backlash that scientists faced during the Red Scare. What were the ... harassment of those (such as political opponents) with unpopular views." ...

“Red Scare,” the podcast founded by Nekrasova, Khachiyan and producer Meg Murnane in 2018, is a combination of political, cultural and malicious commentary spread out over an hour and a half.

His book, Red Scare, is about post-World War II America, but he says there's a throughline connecting that era to our current political moment. Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews The Pitt and ...

Meanwhile, it fueled ungrounded suspicion and distrust, fracturing workplaces, communities, families, and personal relationships under the long shadow of the Red Scare while setting the tone for ...

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 ...

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.