Hofstadter

[ hof-stat-er, -stah-ter ]

noun

1. Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
2. Robert, 1915–90, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1961.

Hofstadter

/ hŏf′stăt′ər /

1. American physicist who determined the inner structure of protons and neutrons (1948) and in 1961 shared with German physicist Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer the 1961 Nobel Prize for physics.

Example Sentences

Richard Hofstadter, one of the premier historians and public intellectuals of the 20th century, explained in his 1963 classic, “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life,” that most Americans view intelligence as merely functional.

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Sociologist and historian Richard Hofstadter described this behavior as “a disorder in relation to authority, characterized by an inability to find other modes for human relationship than those of more or less complete domination or submission.”

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At least since the publication of Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," belief in conspiracy theories has been seen as an aberrational, fringe phenomenon.

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Moyn himself almost admits as much, writing that he chose figures like Berlin and Popper "in preference to more familiar Cold War sages" like Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard Hofstadter or Arthur Schlesinger Jr. "because they have been so neglected and therefore cast more unexpected light on critical features of their time."

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These conspiracy theories, and what Richard Hofstadter described in his seminal 1964 essay as "the paranoid style," have become much more complex and dangerous in the Age of Trump and this time of democracy crisis and ascendant neofascism.

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