EPISODE · Aug 5, 2025 · 1H 2M
131. R is for Red Scare
from The Anxiety Encyclopedia · host Lorien Megill and Katharine McNally
Katharine tells Lorien not about that one other podcast but about the red scare in the US in the 1920s, 40s, and 50s (we were a little busy in the 1930s). Sources: Sources:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-democrats-enemies-within-rcna175628https://www.newsweek.com/trump-reacts-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-primary-win-2090781https://apnews.com/article/trump-communist-judges-tariff-china-russia-cae626a3699a5411841f646a847c2c7b https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/retread-scare-trump-and-other-republicans-evoke-another-era-by-calling-democrats-communists https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/ https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/mccarthyism-red-scare#:~:text=%5BThe%20American%20Heritage%20Dictionary%20gives,in%20order%20to%20suppress%20opposition.%5D https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/mccarthy-more-than-just-a-man/#:~:text=For%20several%20years%20before%20Joseph,Supreme%20Court%20Justice%2C%20William%20O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcuYybbehAo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
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Katharine tells Lorien not about that one other podcast but about the red scare in the US in the 1920s, 40s, and 50s (we were a little busy in the 1930s). Sources: Sources:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-democrats-enemies-within-rcna175628https://www.newsweek.com/trump-reacts-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-primary-win-2090781https://apnews.com/article/trump-communist-judges-tariff-china-russia-cae626a3699a5411841f646a847c2c7b https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/retread-scare-trump-and-other-republicans-evoke-another-era-by-calling-democrats-communists https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/ https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/mccarthyism-red-scare#:~:text=%5BThe%20American%20Heritage%20Dictionary%20gives,in%20order%20to%20suppress%20opposition.%5D https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/mccarthy-more-than-just-a-man/#:~:text=For%20several%20years%20before%20Joseph,Supreme%20Court%20Justice%2C%20William%20O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcuYybbehAo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
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