On this episode of Start Making Sense, historian Beverly Gage compares Trump’s attacks on universities with those of the McCarthy Era, and Jeff Kisseloff argues that Whittaker Chambers lied about a ...

In the ’90s, Garber developed a reputation for intellectual risk-taking with a series of psychoanalytically inflected books ...

Kate Quinn’s fast-paced novel “The Briar Club” serves up murder, homey recipes, a talking house with attitude, 1950s-era feminists in Washington, D.C., and the specter of Sen. Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare ...

Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular history, has now tackled the familiar story of the Second Red Scare—the period after World War II, when the nation's ...

A new book by journalist Clay Risen brings back to life a period of American history after World War II known as the Red Scare. According to Risen, what should've been a counterintelligence effort ...