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McCarthyism
February 8, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
“Are You Still a Marxist?”: Republican Senator Goes Full McCarthy
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy lost it while questioning a Biden judicial nominee.
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.
September 15, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
Librarians Didn’t Sign Up to Be Queer Activists—but This Year, They Are
Anti-LGBTQ activists are increasingly targeting public reading spaces—and librarians are our best defenders.
November 19, 2021
Todd Gitlin
Senator Kennedy’s “Unhinged” Red-Baiting: What Is the Matter With These People?
Just when you think the Republican Party has scraped the bottom of the barrel, it breaks through into the slime pit below.
October 22, 2021
Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr.
Republicans and Wall Street Are Smearing Biden’s Bank Regulator as a Commie
The red-baiting is a red herring. Saule Omarova’s real sin in the eyes of bankers is that she knows the secrets of their derivatives casino.
October 2, 2020
Dan Kaufman
The Real Legacy of a Demagogue
A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.
May 1, 2020
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Sophie Pinkham
How Vivian Gornick Reinvigorated Political Writing
Her most criticized book, “The Romance of American Communism,” has become a modern classic.
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