Richard Hofstadter

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  8/23/2021
  

  Bad Information: QAnon is a Social Problem, Not a Cognitive One

  by Nicolas Guilhot

  "The champions of debunking and the new information vigilantes are not interested in entertaining the possibility that the root cause of conspiracy theories may be located outside the mind and may require a reexamination of our economic and social arrangements."

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  12-5-2018 (accessed)
  

  The dubious half-life of Richard Hofstadter’s “paranoid style”

  by Kathryn Olmsted

  Why today’s historians (but not pundits) are reluctant to embrace Hofstadter’s approach. 

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  2-11-18
  

  Richard Hofstadter’s debt to his wife is suddenly a thing

  "Thanks Are Due Above All to My Wife."

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-23-15
  

  Richard Hofstadter’s insights into the "paranoid style in American politics” lauded in the NYT

  Hofstadter never abandoned his liberal views. But his fear of the mob qualified him as a conservative by temperament.

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• 10-15-13
  

  The Paranoid Style: Then and Now

  by Alan Wolfe

  We need to move beyond Richard Hofstadter's formulation of "paranoid" to understand today's Tea Party Republicans.

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• 10-7-13
  

  Even Richard Hofstadter Would Be Amazed by Tea Party Extremism

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  How the paranoid style in American politics has shut down the government.

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• The Tea Party Isn't Conservative

  by Christopher S. Parker

  Credit: Wiki Commons.Who, or what, is the Tea Party? Its leaders claim to be conservative, yet the regularity with which the movement and its supporters stray from traditional American conservatism is, frankly, shocking.This claim isn’t based on wild presumption or anecdotal evidence. Rather, this conclusion is based upon the most complete empirical study of the Tea Party, and its supporters, to date.The Tea Party, and its supporters, claim they’re about core conservative principles such as small government and fiscal responsibility. They claim to resist the policies of the Obama administration on ideological grounds: Government, they say, is too big and spends too much.