At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...
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 ...
Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and the MAGA movement.
After World War II, a network of conservative ... turned FBI confidential informant. “Red Channels” contained the names of 151 people working in media and related professions.
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 ...
This was right after World War II, when tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union grew, and there were suspicions that the Cold War would ... Welcome to the Red Scare 2.0. It wasn ...