Politics; December 7, 2016; Neo-McCarthyism and the New Cold War Neo-McCarthyism and the New Cold War The preceding Cold War generated a prolonged slurring and suppression of dissenting American ...

Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture , by Thomas Doherty. Columbia University Press, 305 pages, $27.95. It is often said that television came into its own as a polit… ...

The few indictments seen during the Cold War targeted communists — most notably, W.E.B. Dubois was prosecuted under FARA in 1951 as an agent of the Soviet Union for petitioning against the ...

And then, with the all-too-hot Korean war at an end and the Cold War becoming ever more frigid, McCarthy, who had had a field day, went one step too far. In 1953, ...

Cold War. McCarthyism, Past—and Present? Clay Risen's Red Scare book wrongly frames it as an exclusively conservative hysteria.. Brandan P. Buck | From the July 2025 issue ...

And then, with the all-too-hot Korean war at an end and the Cold War becoming ever more frigid, McCarthy, who had had a field day, went one step too far. In 1953, ...

Others used the same Cold War comparison, pointing to the late Joseph McCarthy and his quest to root out those he called subversive. “They’re just bringing back old tactics here.

He was a Cold War opportunist. As legendary broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow said of McCarthy: “He didn’t create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it — and rather successfully.” ...

Still, as difficult as their position might have seemed, liberals managed to beat back McCarthyism and retain public confidence in their ability to handle the Cold War.

The “New McCarthyism” has been announced so many times that it is at risk of losing real meaning. But the campus “anti-Semitism” investigations being ...

Americans in the 1950s lived in a state of fear that laid the groundwork for ...