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… ...

McCarthyism was a characteristic feature of the preceding Cold War, but now it is coming from liberals, even from the Clinton campaign.

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 ...

Don Rimmington, AN EXAMPLE OF THE IMPACT OF McCARTHYISM AND THE COLD WAR ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF UNIVERSITIES, Minerva, Vol. 36, No. 1 (SPRING 1998), pp. 81-84 ... Reviewed Work: The Cold War and ...

“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years,” stated President Obama acidly, publicly mocking Mitt Romney’s assertion that ...

Our dangerous new McCarthyism: Russia, Noam Chomsky and what the media's not telling you about the new Cold War Perverse, diabolical obsession: Policy cliques in D.C. have no intention of ...

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, ...

The Leonard Lopate Show, hosted by Leonard Lopate for over three decades, featured conversations that New Yorkers turned to each afternoon for insight into a wide variety of topics; including ...

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.” ...

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.