The preceding Cold War generated a prolonged slurring and suppression of dissenting American voices, and it may be happening again.

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 Foreign Agents Registration Act But we cannot discuss McCarthyism in the 21st century without explaining its weapon of choice in the new Cold War: the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

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

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 ...

Phillip Deery looks back at how McCarthyism shook up the lives of six political activists with ties to New York City by undermining civil liberties, curtailing equality before the law ...

Clay Risen discusses his new book "Red Scare." The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 was passed amid anti-communist fears during the early Cold War. That period of history is the focus of ...

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.

June 9 marks 70 years since the famous take-down of Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the Cold War: "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" ...

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.

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.

the threat of a nuclear war -- led to even more apprehension. People such as Sen. Joseph McCarthy and members of his committee helped stoke the fires, and a large number of communities were affected.