In the ’90s, Garber developed a reputation for intellectual risk-taking with a series of psychoanalytically inflected books ...

The Red Scare is a period in U.S. history during which the fear of communism was the most pervasive influence on politics, culture, and everyday life. While there were two major Red Scares, the first ...

Image Credit: Ninotchka and Conspirator (Image: Amazon MGM and Loew's Inc. In the late 1940’s and the early 1950’s, America ...

Dasha Nekrasova is an actress and political commentator who co-hosts the popular Red Scare podcast. She is also a victim of one of the more bizarre cancel culture stories in recent memory. Over time, ...

Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular history, has now tackled the familiar story of the Second Red Scare—the period after World War II, when the nation's ...

On this episode of Start Making Sense, historian Beverly Gage compares Trump’s attacks on universities with those of the McCarthy Era, and Jeff Kisseloff argues that Whittaker Chambers lied about a ...

Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn at a HUAC hearing.(Getty Images) “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” So begins L.P. Hartley’s masterful novel of love and memory, The ...

Glenn Frankel worked for the Washington Post for three decades, winning a Pulitzer Prize in the process. Since retiring from the day-to-day news business, he's kept an eye on social and political ...