McCarthyism never really ended in America; it metastasized. The ideological purges that once targeted “communists” now target Muslims/Arab-Americans, and anyone sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.

On Monday afternoon, five days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a university in Utah, US vice-president JD Vance presented an episode of the podcast that made the rightwing activist famous.

pt. 1. Antecedents -- ch. 1. "We were sitting ducks": the world of American communism -- ch. 2. "Red-baiters, Inc.": the development of an anticommunist network -- ch ...