Red Storm Rising” looks at the rise and fall of the American Communist Party, examining its political context, its leadership, its appeal to the American public, and why it never became mainstream.
Even after the original group fizzled, many of its members were able to keep making films with progressive messages.
Marvel blew it. They had a chance to make The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the property that launched the Marvel Age of Comics in the 1960s, into a great pro-freedom, anti-communist movie. Instead, ...
I am friends with a talented young filmmaker who lives in Pasadena, California, and in a consultation with him, he noted that there were once anti-communist liberals in America — people ... the ...
Senator Joseph McCarthy “comes along really chronologically halfway through the story [in the early 1950s], and there’s a lot that happened before he was even on the scene,” says author Clay Risen.
William F. Buckley called him “Mission Control.” National Review publisher Bill Rusher referred to him as “the Master.” From Australia, Professor Hiram Caton described him as “the central nervous ...
For years, President Trump has blamed “communists” for his legal and political troubles. Now, the second Trump administration is deploying that same historically loaded label to cast his opponents — ...