These days, time often feels like a flat circle, where the past, present and future are collapsing into a disorienting blur as President Donald Trump and his supporters escalate the collapse of our civil society, institutions, norms and democracy. Many are framing this moment of political vertigo as a new Red Scare, a 21st-century McCarthyism. But this is only partly true.

In his award-winning book “American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis,” leading historian Adam Hochschild draws a parallel to an even darker and more perilous time in American history: A century ago, in the years following World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson’s administration and its allies crushed dissent by targeting newspapers, imprisoning political rivals, inciting poli

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