A Million Little McCarthys Shining Darkly: The Red Scare’s Second Coming
6 min readJul 4, 2020
During the Red Scare of the ’50s, to speak out was to risk being named, and to be named was to risk being blacklisted. As Senator Joseph McCarthy put it:
Any man who has been named by a either a senator or a committee or a congressman as dangerous to the welfare of this…