Episode 1156
100 Years of 100 Things: McCarthyism
Clay Risen goes through the history of the Cold War-era struggle inside the US between the FDR progressives and social conservatives and how it continues to reverberate.
March 26, 202530m 38s
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Show Notes
As our centennial series continues, Clay Risen, New York Times reporter and the author of Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America (Scribner, 2025), goes through the history of the Cold War-era struggle inside the US between the FDR progressives and social conservatives and how it continues to reverberate.
Topics
mccarthyismcold_warpoliticslocal_wnycgovernmentus_historyhistoryred_scare