One only has to go back several decades to “The Wizard of Oz” to try to understand what is needed now in our world. We live in a world that is being visited upon ...

Relaunching free-speech groups that fought the Red Scare is helpful. But last time, they had the White House as an ally, not ...

Then U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. McCarthy stands before a map which charts what he said was Communist activity in the United States. (Photo by ...

During Senator Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts in the 1950s, he decided to go after the U.S. Army. The army hired Joseph Welch as its lawyer to make its case during what is known as the ...

Army Counsel Joseph Welch looks angry and waves a hand as he demands that Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.), not try to serve as both witness and judge in the McCarthy-Army row, June 16, 1954. Their ...

A modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in “digital town squares” across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk has become a focal point for a coordinated campaign of ...

The aim of the class was to better understand the concept of moral panics, which are societal epidemics of disproportionate fear of real or perceived threats. Such outsized fear can often lead to ...

The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling; in both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty.