In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

America's first Red Scare, an era of hostility toward perceived "disloyalty" — and relentless government repression of radicals and others — began in April 1919. Organized labor, freed from ...

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and ...

“This seems like one of the biggest threats, if not the biggest threats to First Amendment freedoms in 50 years,” said Brian ...

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

Brendan: (continuing impersonation) I'm Neil, see? So I guess the first question is, the original Falcon EP was the first Red Scare release. Toby: That's true, I think Brendan described it best he ...

Risen, a historian and journalist, believes that the roots of today’s political hard right are to be found in the Red Scare that lasted from the mid-1940s to 1957, when lawmakers tried to root out ...