American Pravda: McCarthyism, Part II - Political Payback, by Ron Unz

May 5th 2025 12:00am EDT

Last week I published a long article exploring the history of Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, whose anti-Communist crusade dominated our politics of the early 1950s. His activities gave rise to “McCarthyism” as a term of abuse and despite the passage of three generations, that expression still seems so widely used today that it has…

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