Ep. 101 McCarthyism and The Red Scare

“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist
Party?”

On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we
explore how America’s fear of communism in the early- to mid-20th
century led to firings and blacklists in Hollywood, government,
and higher education — and how these actions compromised
America’s treasured principles of free speech, free conscience,
free association, and due process of law.

We are joined by Ellen Schrecker, a former professor at Yeshiva
University and the author of Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in
America and No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities.


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