Richard Hofstadter
| Richard Hofstadter link (Historian, public intellectual) | |
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| Born | August 6, 1916 Buffalo, New York State, U.S. |
| Died | October 24, 1970 New York City, USA |
Cause of death | leukemia |
| Nationality | US |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Alma mater | University at Buffalo, Columbia University |
| Spouses | Felice Swados, Beatrice Kevitt |
US historian whose 1964 essay and book The Paranoid Style in American Politics has been used ever since to pathologise political dissidence as "conspiracy theories". | |
Richard Hofstadter was an US historian and public intellectual. A professor of American History at Columbia University, he was one of the leading intellectuals in corporate media of the American post-war era. His 1964 essay and book The Paranoid Style in American Politics[1] has been used ever since to pathologise political dissidence as "conspiracy theories". The initial iteration of his essay was minted in November of 1963, the same month as the JFK assassination.
CIA funding
Joseph McBride noted that:
...But in a strange coincidence, Hofstadter first delivered a version of the title essay in a talk as the Herbert Sender Lecture at Oxford University in November 1963...
It may be coincidental, but Hofstadter’s biographer David S. Brown notes instances in the fifties and sixties when some of the historian’s work was funded, albeit indirectly, but the CIA. Copies of his influential 1954 essay The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt, on the dangers of rightwing extremism and its "widespread latest hostility toward American institutions," and his book The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States (with Walter P. Metzger, 1955) were distributed by a CIA front organization, the Fund for the Republic. Hofstadter worked for the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, "a society of liberal cold warriors opposed to international communism" whose parent organization, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, was heavily funded by the CIA. In the sixties, Hofstadter also wrote for Daedalus and Encounter, two publications partially backed by the CIA.[2]
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References
- ↑ https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
- ↑ Joseph McBride Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of John F. Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit by; Hightower Press [SC]; ISBN 978–1939795250; pp. 178; 187. Via Dave Emory https://spitfirelist.com/news/richard-hofstadter-and-the-cia/
