Hofstadter as bunk: http://bit.ly/21NT2LJ https://twitter.com/JamesFallows/status/714185481974484992 …
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Replying to @jackshafer
@jackshafer@notjessewalker Are you part of the anti-Hofstadter bandwagon? Glad to have you as part of our team.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@jackshafer@notjessewalker Wrong on progressivism too (in The Age of Reform.) But being great at being glib will take you far.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @kcm74
@kcm74@jackshafer@notjessewalker Also wrong on Social Darwinism! Yet still widely cited historian, especially by journalists. Sigh.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@kcm74@jackshafer But all historians get things wrong; key was he brought pivotal role of ideology back into political history2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @davidimarcus
@davidimarcus@kcm74@jackshafer Well, I'd say Hofstadter's errors have more influential damage precisely because he was an fine writer1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@davidimarcus@jackshafer He's a great writer. But his view of ideology is Fukuyama-ish. US story aspiring to Hartzian liberalism.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @kcm74
@kcm74@HeerJeet@jackshafer think that's a bit unkind; he & Hartz not celebrating liberalism's hold on US history. They were lamenting it1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @davidimarcus
@kcm74@HeerJeet@jackshafer agree he got a lot wrong &missed radical tradition running parallel to liberal one. But not happy abt end of id1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
@davidimarcus @kcm74 @jackshafer Yeah, Hofstader was unhappy with American consensus, not celebrating it -- that's something people miss.
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