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I recently spoke with Risen about the conspiracy thinking behind the Red Scare—and the political conditions in which it reemerges—and what can be learned by looking back at a perilous time in ...

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 Irish Rosary trial had its origins in the “Red Scare” general election of 1932 ... it as a great obstacle to the achievement of the political and economic freedom of this country and ...

“Our nation has seen times like this before, especially during the Red Scare and Palmer Raids ... and appear to be held on the basis of their political ideology. The comparison is notable ...

The Red Scare in the 1920s ... for stating their views on political issues of the day. Against that backdrop, Crawford summoned the anti-communist Red Scare and McCarthyism panics of the last ...

At the height of the Red Scare, Margaret Chase Smith was willing ... it meant the end of her political career. Smith had initially welcomed McCarthy’s campaign to root out Soviet spies and ...

Political talk without the boring parts ... Donald Trump is "the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s"—that’s what Princeton’s president Christopher ...

Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on newly ... Senator Joseph McCarthy's personal and political opportunism, the enduring power of ...

I thought the Red Scare was a great way to examine that, because there’s a strong cultural component, but there’s also obviously a strong political component, both in terms of domestic ...

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