Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture attention.

Back in the 1950s, in the United States, even a whisper of sympathy for Russia or the Soviet Union was unthinkable and seen ...

Video rising -- The Gestalt of the blacklist -- Controversial personalities -- Hypersensitivity: the codes of television censorship -- Forums of the air -- Roman circuses and Spanish inquisitions -- ...

There’s nothing quite like some good old Cold War hysteria. The Red Scare and McCarthyism had spread across the United States with aggressive fervor in the early 1950s, leading to many communist ...