Love to be Richard Hofstadter and have the CIA secretly spending big money to circulate my articles decrying the populist mind and its propensity for conspiracy theories.
Hofstadter definitely saw populists as conspiracy minded, whether he used phrase conspiracy theory or not. And his work on this line received CIA funding.pic.twitter.com/xkxZZHkQbq
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"Pseudo-Conservative Revolt" deals with McCarthyism, but in terms of regarding politics as entertainment. "Development of Academic Freedom" is self-explanatory. Fund for the Republic ceased to exist in 1959, and Hofstadter's "Paranoid Style" essay appeared in 1964.
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Hofstadter's interest in conspiracy theories long pre-dated Paranoid Style and and can be seen in American Political Tradition & Age of Reform. Hofstadter published in CIA journals (notably Encounter) into 1960s. This is really splitting hairs.
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