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Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series,

A Hundred Years of a Hundred Things.

You know, we started this last July,

and now we have reached thing number 80. It's 100 years of 100 things. You know, we started this last July, and now we have reached thing number 80.

It's 100 years of McCarthyism from a century ago to today. Just as an example of how

contemporary the notion of McCarthyism still is, just yesterday, a group of Columbia University

faculty members sued the Trump administration over the $400 million

in medical research and other grants. Trump is withholding until the university satisfies

Trump's demands on various things. While referring to the suit, teachers union president

Randy Weingarten called it called what Trump is doing, modern-day McCarthyism.

So here we are, with that word still in play, for things that are at least allegedly going on right now.

Our guest for this 100-year segment is New York Times correspondent Clay Risen, who also writes books about history and has a new one that plays right into our 100 years' hands

called Red Scare, Blacklist, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.

Clay, thanks for coming on. Congratulations on the book. Welcome back to WNYC.

Oh, thanks, Brian. It's an honor to be here. People who know about McCarthyism from Wisconsin

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