As our centennial series continues, Clay Risen, New York Times reporter and the author of <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Red-Scare/Clay-Risen/9781982141806">Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America</a> (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.

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.

As our centennial series continues, Clay Risen, New York Times&nbsp;reporter and the author of <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Red-Scare/Clay-Risen/9781982141806" rel="noopener noreferrer">Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America</a>&nbsp;(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.

100 Years of 100 Things: McCarthyism

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