"The Paranoid Style in American Politics" is a lousy essay on a great topic. I'm not saying he deliberately sabotaged it, for whatever reason. But who has actually written the essay Hofstadter was maybe paid off NOT to write?
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And that could hardly be an accident! (Thanks for the rec).
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The non-paranoid explanation is that Hofstadter's Cold War liberalism and consensus framework was, post-1945, the dominant ideology of the American elite & so his framework (wrong though it obviously is) continues to appeal to the powerful heirs of that tradition
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More than Dunning?
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Well, I don't think Dunning is ranked high as a scholar anymore. Hofstadter still is
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