McCarthy
Red Scare demagogue
McCarthy is an Irish surname, most notably associated with U.S.
Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose 1950s investigations into alleged communist infiltration gave rise to McCarthyism—aggressive, often baseless accusations of disloyalty or subversion.
The term survives as shorthand for political witch hunts: The hearings had a McCarthy-era feel to them.
Upper chamber member
- JosephCommon masculine given name
- HUACRed Scare congressional committee
- blacklistRecord of prohibited entities
- anticommunismOpposition to collectivist ideology
hearings · censure · demagogue · witchhunt · persecution · fearmongering · propaganda · subversion
Three-leafed Irish emblem
- emeraldGreen precious beryl
- GaelicCeltic linguistic tradition
- DublinIrish capital city
- CelticOf Irish-Welsh descent
Guinness · brogue · ancestry · heritage · clan · lineage · patronymic · Cormac
Irish given name
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- PulitzerMajor journalism award
- post-apocalypticAfter global catastrophe
- proseUnversified language
literary · fiction · minimalist · dialogue · violence · Western · existential · fatalism
senator
Upper chamber member
- JosephCommon masculine given name
- HUACRed Scare congressional committee
- blacklistRecord of prohibited entities
anticommunism · hearings · censure · demagogue · witchhunt · persecution · fearmongering · propaganda · subversion · innuendo
shamrock
Three-leafed Irish emblem
Celtic · Guinness · brogue · ancestry · heritage · clan · lineage · patronymic · Cormac · colcannon
Cormac
Irish given name
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- PulitzerMajor journalism award
- post-apocalypticAfter global catastrophe
prose · literary · fiction · minimalist · dialogue · violence · Western · existential · fatalism
- Mc surnamesMcDonald, McCartney, McConnell, McGregor, McKenzie
- AlaskaFairbanks, Juneau, Denali, Sitka, Kodiak
- 1950sEisenhower, poodle skirt, Elvis Presley, Rosa Parks, baby boom
- Irish SurnamesO'Brien, Murphy, Kelly, O'Neill, O'Connor
- 1950s AmericaEisenhower, suburbs, Korean War, consumerism, Red Scare
- Alaska PlacesJuneau, Fairbanks, Nome, Sitka, Ketchikan
McCarthyEdward R. Murrow
tolerance · pluralism · open society · free inquiry · presumption of innocence
McCarthyEdward R. Murrow
Pete Seeger · Paul Robeson · Arthur Miller · J. Robert Oppenheimer · democratic socialism
- Melissa McCarthy
- Jenny McCarthy
- Joseph McCarthyAnti-communist inquisitor senator
- Joe McCarthyAnti-communist senator, fifties
- Kevin McCarthyDeposed GOP Speaker
- Cormac McCarthy