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“The hysteria is worse than what’s happening on the ground, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have an effect,” Monty said.

Early in “Red Scare,” Clay Risen’s thorough, impassioned but even-handed study of Cold War hysteria in the U.S., the author makes a point of explaining what his subject is — and isn’t.

But I won't rely here on emotion, outrage or hysteria — just cold, hard facts.

"There's almost a bit of hysteria around facts like there are more women doctors than men now or that women are earning slightly more than men in certain age groups."

Days before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he accused the Biden administration of peak "hysteria" in suggesting Russian troops were preparing to go to war.