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26. F*cking Commies- McCarthy and the Red Scare
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"History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes"- Mark Twain
It seems to be a common ideology that anyone who identifies as "left" or "liberal" or "progressive" or audible gasp "democratic socialist" is "a f*cking commie"!!!! And that of course is bad.... but why? Why is that rhetoric so ingrained in American vernacular?
In the wake of World War II, the tenuous "alliance" between the USSR and the USA disintegrated. With the entrance of nuclear arms, the ideological enemies and political superpowers fell immediately into the decades long Cold War. Fear of nuclear fallout, another devastating world war, was perfect political fodder for those who wanted to use fear to generate power, privilege and wealth for themselves.
Senator Joseph R McCarthy was a super power in his own right. From his speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, viciously clasping a piece of paper he claimed had over 200 names of employees in the state department who were communist spies. He levied unfounded accusations, ruined careers and lied his way into infamy. He, and his right hand man and future mafia and Trump lawyer Roy Cohn, made it a point to paint all their opposition as communist enemies of state. And it worked.. until it didn't.
We explore not just the life and movements of Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, the Red Scare, the Lavender Scare and the thread of manipulation that leads us all the way to now.
Sources:
Richard H. Rovere – Senator Joe McCarthy (Harcourt Brace, 1959)
Ellen Schrecker – Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Princeton University Press, 1998)
David M. Oshinsky – A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy (Oxford University Press, 1983)
Richard M. Fried – Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1990)
Howard Zinn – A People's History of the United States
John Lewis Gaddis – The Cold War: A New History (Penguin Press, 2005)
Arthur Herman – Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator
Government & Legal Documents
Army–McCarthy Hearings Transcript (1954)
Available through the U.S. Senate Historical Office and National Archives.
Excerpts are commonly found in collections like:
📁 National Archives – Army-McCarthy HearingsU.S. Senate Resolution 301 (1954) – Censure of Senator McCarthy.
FBI Vault – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Files
Venona Project Decrypts (NSA) – Declassified Soviet espionage cables.
Journalism & Documentary Archives
Edward R. Murrow – “See It Now” Broadcast on McCarthy (March 9, 1954)
New York Times Archive – Coverage of McCarthy, the Rosenbergs, and the Army hearings.
Vanity Fair – “The Power and Poison of Roy Cohn” (2019)
The New Yorker – “Roy Cohn and the Making of a Winner-Take-All America”
The Guardian – “Trump's Roy Cohn Obsession” and Cohn’s legacy in GOP tactics.
Video & Archival Footage
Army–McCarthy Hearings (C-SPAN Archive)
“Have You No Sense of Decency?” – Joseph Welch Confronts McCarthy (June 9, 1954)
PBS American Experience: “McCarthy”
“Where’s My Roy Cohn?” (2019 Documentary) – Directed by Matt Tyrnauer
Available on various streaming platforms (Amazon Prime, Hulu, YouTube).
27 episodes
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"History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes"- Mark Twain
It seems to be a common ideology that anyone who identifies as "left" or "liberal" or "progressive" or audible gasp "democratic socialist" is "a f*cking commie"!!!! And that of course is bad.... but why? Why is that rhetoric so ingrained in American vernacular?
In the wake of World War II, the tenuous "alliance" between the USSR and the USA disintegrated. With the entrance of nuclear arms, the ideological enemies and political superpowers fell immediately into the decades long Cold War. Fear of nuclear fallout, another devastating world war, was perfect political fodder for those who wanted to use fear to generate power, privilege and wealth for themselves.
Senator Joseph R McCarthy was a super power in his own right. From his speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, viciously clasping a piece of paper he claimed had over 200 names of employees in the state department who were communist spies. He levied unfounded accusations, ruined careers and lied his way into infamy. He, and his right hand man and future mafia and Trump lawyer Roy Cohn, made it a point to paint all their opposition as communist enemies of state. And it worked.. until it didn't.
We explore not just the life and movements of Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, the Red Scare, the Lavender Scare and the thread of manipulation that leads us all the way to now.
Sources:
Richard H. Rovere – Senator Joe McCarthy (Harcourt Brace, 1959)
Ellen Schrecker – Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Princeton University Press, 1998)
David M. Oshinsky – A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy (Oxford University Press, 1983)
Richard M. Fried – Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1990)
Howard Zinn – A People's History of the United States
John Lewis Gaddis – The Cold War: A New History (Penguin Press, 2005)
Arthur Herman – Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator
Government & Legal Documents
Army–McCarthy Hearings Transcript (1954)
Available through the U.S. Senate Historical Office and National Archives.
Excerpts are commonly found in collections like:
📁 National Archives – Army-McCarthy HearingsU.S. Senate Resolution 301 (1954) – Censure of Senator McCarthy.
FBI Vault – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Files
Venona Project Decrypts (NSA) – Declassified Soviet espionage cables.
Journalism & Documentary Archives
Edward R. Murrow – “See It Now” Broadcast on McCarthy (March 9, 1954)
New York Times Archive – Coverage of McCarthy, the Rosenbergs, and the Army hearings.
Vanity Fair – “The Power and Poison of Roy Cohn” (2019)
The New Yorker – “Roy Cohn and the Making of a Winner-Take-All America”
The Guardian – “Trump's Roy Cohn Obsession” and Cohn’s legacy in GOP tactics.
Video & Archival Footage
Army–McCarthy Hearings (C-SPAN Archive)
“Have You No Sense of Decency?” – Joseph Welch Confronts McCarthy (June 9, 1954)
PBS American Experience: “McCarthy”
“Where’s My Roy Cohn?” (2019 Documentary) – Directed by Matt Tyrnauer
Available on various streaming platforms (Amazon Prime, Hulu, YouTube).
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