McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage. But the movement was bigger than Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Risen's coverage of the Second Red Scare spans from 1946 through the 1957 death of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R–Wisc.). It covers the oft-trod ground—the early espionage cases of Alger Hiss and ...

McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage. But the movement was bigger than Senator Joseph McCarthy.

With that speech, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy seized the nation’s attention and would hold it for four years. Yet his words probably would have faded into obscurity if reporters hadn’t ...

Federal Judge William Young’s recent words from the bench sounded a lot like Joseph Welch’s famous rebuke of Senator Joe McCarthy in 1954.

Goldberg’s Red Scare analogy is accurate—but too narrowly ideological, blaming the political purge on right-wing troglodytes like Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.), McCarthyism’s namesake, claimed in what is now considered an infamous speech that 205 internal federal employees were serving the Communist Party, saying that they ...

Truman built the infrastructure of the Red Scare, which McCarthy then opportunistically and brilliantly commandeered for partisan ends. Current Issue July/August 2025 Issue ...