scare
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Appeared in the October 25, 2025, print edition as 'A Scottish Scare'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
As I conclude in my latest book “American Scare: Florida’s Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives,” referencing Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz,” “There are friends of Dorothy in any system.”
From Salon • Oct. 4, 2025
By the time Hofstadter wrote that, the Red Scare had subsided, its loudest voices pushed to the fringe of U.S. politics.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025
“Spartacus” screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, blacklisted during the Red Scare, may have identified with the shrewd Thracian gladiator who led a slave revolt against the crushing overlords of the Roman Republic.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025
Since Communists rallied around a red flag, the nickname “Reds” became attached to them, and the Red Scare got its name.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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