The Red Scare & America's Conspiratorial Politics
17 March - 44 mins
Podcast Series
Fresh Air
Writer Clay Risen describes a political movement which destroyed the careers of thousands of teachers, civil servants and artists whose beliefs or associations were deemed un-American. His book, Red Scare, is about post-World War II America, but he says there's a throughline connecting that era to our current political moment.
Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews The Pitt and Adolescence.
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