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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
and Other Essays
Richard Hofstadter
1964
Knopf
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The Paranoid Style: Rereading Richard Hofstadter in the Aftermath of January 6
How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.
by
Bennett Parten
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
July 13, 2021
Debunk
What Richard Hofstadter Got Wrong
The late historian and author of “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” misdiagnosed the fate of modern conservatism.
by
Chris Lehmann
via
The New Republic
on
April 16, 2020
Argument
Donald Trump and the 'Paranoid Style' in American (Intellectual) Politics
Revisiting Holfstadter's "paranoid style" in the era of Trump.
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Leo P. Ribuffo
via
The International Security Studies Forum
on
June 13, 2017
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Rise of the Far-Right Ultras
A new book shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
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The Nation
on
January 11, 2022
Bad Information
Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.
by
Nicolas Guilhot
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Boston Review
on
August 23, 2021
Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents
Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?
by
Jeet Heer
via
The Nation
on
October 6, 2020
Politics, Populism, and the Life of the Mind
An interview with Sean Wilentz on Library of America's new collection of Richard Hofstadter's works.
by
Sean Wilentz
,
Daniel Wortel-London
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Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
on
July 27, 2020
Nativism, Violence, and the Origins of the Paranoid Style
How a lurid 19th-century memoir of sexual abuse produced one of the ugliest features of American politics.
by
Mike Mariani
via
Slate
on
March 22, 2017
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it.
by
Richard Hofstadter
via
Harper’s
on
November 1, 1964