With its indifference to truth, the ruthless pursuit of opponents, the linking of sexuality to subversion and the capitulation of institutions, Donald Trump's America is resembling the anti-Communist ...
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It’s Hard to Fight McCarthyism When McCarthy Is President
Relaunching free-speech groups that fought the Red Scare is helpful. But last time, they had the White House as an ally, not ...
In 1954, American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow said, “No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his ...
History’s rhythm is steady—accusation, repression, regret. What varies is how long we let the middle part last.
Then U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin testifying against the U.S. Army during the Army-McCarthy hearings in Washington, D.C., June 9, 1954. McCarthy stands before a map which charts Communist ...
Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, author Clay Risen explores Congress's investigation of Communism ...
The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling; in both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty.
Abraham Lincoln’s quote, “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” reverberates even more loudly today. In Sen. Margaret Chase Smith’s 1950 speech, she refers to “the Communist design of ‘confuse ...
OP-ED. In an op-ed for Le Monde, the American studies scholar voices concern over the climate of suspicion and repression ...
Three Australian citizens of Chinese ethnicity who were asked to condemn the Chinese Communist Party as they appeared before a government inquiry into diaspora issues have criticised the incident as ...
A Texas A&M free speech case raises questions about academic freedom that have featured before in American society and courts, including during the 1950s. Westend61 Texas A&M University announced the ...
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