Ronald Radosh

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A review ofRED SCARE: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern Americaby Clay Risen, 460 pages, Scribner NY (March 2025)The “Red Scare”—more commonly known as “McCarthyism” after Joseph McCarthy, the junior senator from Wisconsin—captivated the United States from the start of the Cold War in the late 1940s until the end of the 1950s.

1 month ago | quillette.com | Sonya Michel |Andy Lamey |Matt Johnson |Ronald Radosh

It was predictable that Hamas officials and their radicalised international supporters would deny that sexual violence against Israeli women and men was committed on 7 October 2023. But denials from the academic field of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies are more surprising because they appear to violate two of the field’s salient principles: support for women’s sexual autonomy and insistence that women who lodge charges of sexual violence should be believed.

Aug 2, 2024 | thebulwark.com | Ronald Radosh

RedsThe Tragedy of American Communismby Maurice IssermanBasic, 374 pp., $35WRITING IN THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS in 1985, Theodore H. Draper described the “minor academic industry” focusing on American communism as awash in studies written by a younger generation with “political and personal backgrounds in the New Left of the 1960s.” Draper himself represented the field’s old guard: He was a 1930s Red who became an ex-Communist.

Apr 27, 2024 | quillette.com | Zoe Booth |Aaron Sarin |Ronald Radosh |Raquel Rosario Sánchez

Drew Pavlou is an Australian student and activist. He made international news after he led protests at the University of Queensland in Australia, supporting Hong Kong and criticizing the university's ties to China. His actions led to a high-profile disciplinary case against him by the university, and a $3.5 million lawsuit which was recently settled.

Apr 25, 2024 | quillette.com | Ronald Radosh |Kushal Mehra |Craig A. Clifford |Maarten Boudry

Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. A review of The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century by Benn Steil; 687 pages; New York: Avid Reader Press (January 2024)Benn Steil is a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations and the prize-winning author of The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War and The Battle of Bretton Woods.