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Podcast: So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
Episode: McCarthyism and The Red Scare
Description: "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 Iv...