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red scare
January 29, 2024
Magazine
Emily Tamkin
Are We Sliding Toward McCarthyism?
In the wake of Hamas’s October 7th attacks, efforts to silence pro-Palestinian speech are ramping up.
December 9, 2022
Magazine
Michael Kazin
J. Edgar Hoover’s Long Shadow
The FBI’s first director built the agency around some of his own worst instincts.
October 18, 2022
Joanna Scutts
How World War I Crushed the American Left
Adam Hochschild’s new book documents a period of thriving radical groups and their devastating suppression.
October 22, 2020
Brett Rosenberg
The Small, Midwestern Town Taken Over by Fake Communists
In the 1950s, the residents of Mosinee, Wisconsin, staged a coup to warn of the dangers of the red menace. The lessons of that historical footnote have never been more relevant.
May 10, 2019
Magazine
Jake Bittle
Red Herrings
The conservative media’s delirious efforts to conjure up a socialist nightmare
July 3, 2018
Noah Isenberg
Making the Movies Un-American
How Hollywood tried to fight fascism and ended up blacklisting suspected Communists.
March 13, 2017
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Jeet Heer
Horrible Histories
The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.
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