Yup. Which is why blithely slandering the entire historical profession as 'corrupt' is so insidious.
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Replying to @jennyschuessler @D_OReagan and
I can only speak to areas I'm familiar with. It's pretty bad. AT&T helped shape mid-century Harvard historians, pushing them away from looking into political economy.https://www.academia.edu/32251036/_From_Political_Economy_to_Civil_Society_Arthur_W._Page_Corporate_Philanthropy_and_the_Reframing_of_the_Past_in_Post-New_Deal_America_in_Boundaries_of_the_State_In_US_History …
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Replying to @matthewstoller @jennyschuessler and
Much current antitrust law relies on terrible history written and/or influenced by Richard Hofstadter, John McGee, and Robert Bork. This has been catastrophic.
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Replying to @matthewstoller @jennyschuessler and
I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates Richard Hofstadter!
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Replying to @matthewstoller @HeerJeet and
On the other hand, Hofstadter did offer this ideahttps://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ …
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Replying to @Horned_OwlJA @HeerJeet and
That's one of the single most destructive essays in recent American history.
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Replying to @tomdissonance @Horned_OwlJA and
Conflating greenbackers, populists, and white supremacists is horrific. Like saying neo-Nazis and anti-Nazi protesters are the same.
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In general, Hofstadter greatly overinflated bigotry & anti-Semitism of populists (See Nugent's Tolerant Populists).
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Replying to @Horned_OwlJA @HeerJeet and
In fact, the history of American populism is full of nativism and xenophobia, not to mention racism and religious bigotry. This used to be widely understood.
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