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10 hours ago · By the early 1950s, George Mowry and Richard Hofstadter contended that Progressivism was a movement of an older, professional, middle class seeking to reclaim its status, deference, and power, which had been usurped by a new corporate elite and a corrupt political class. 85 In the early 1960s, Samuel Hays argued that rather than being the product of a status revolution, Progressivism was the work of an urban upper class of new and younger leading Republican business and professional men. 86 ...
2 days ago · In Richard Hofstadter’s (1963, 43) words, “As European antagonisms withered and lost their meaning on American soil in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the new nation came to be conceived not as sharing the ideologies which had grown out of these antagonisms but as offering an alternative to them.”
1 day ago · In 1964, Richard Hofstadter famously argued that the “paranoid style” has a long and rich tradition in American culture . His examples range from the eighteenth-century panics about the Illuminati to twentieth-century right-wing anti-communist rhetoric.
6 days ago · Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) by Paula S. Fass. As a preeminent American historian from the era spanning World War II to the Vietnam War, he exemplified the cosmopolitan, intellectual culture of New York.
Jun 13, 2024 · 36 Richard Hofstadter and Michael Wallace, American Violence (New York, NY: Knopf, 2012).
2 days ago · Hofstadter himself, for instance, while acknowledging that ‘there are conspiratorial acts in history’, confined his narrative to those paranoiacs for whom ‘[h]istory is a conspiracy, set in motion by demonic forces of almost transcendent power’ (1964/ Citation 1996b, p. 29). More recently, the legal scholars Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule have argued that conspiracy theorists suffer from (in an unfortunately ableist turn of phrase) ‘crippled epistemology’.
Jun 18, 2024 · Paranoia has often bedevilled US politics as described in Richard Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style in American Politics 60 years ago. Perhaps Americans – and others –might ask today whether it is really paranoid to consider Trumps claims about dictatorship?
