America, You’ve Been Blacklisted: McCarthyism Refashioned for a New Age
By John W. Whitehead For those old enough to have lived through the McCarthy era, there is a whiff of something in the air that reeks of the heightened paranoia, finger-pointing, fear-mongering, totalitarian tactics that were hallmarks of the 1950s. Back then, it was the government—spearheaded by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities […]