Richard Hofstadter and scholarly fashion. David Brown’s biography of Hofstadter describes him as an exemplar of “twentieth-century liberalism,” but in fact there was very little about Richard ...

In 1964, the year after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, historian Richard Hofstadter published what is probably his most enduring essay, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” Hofstadter ...

Richard Hofstadter, the Buffalo-born historian, died in 1970, but his works remain just as timely in our time.

ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN LIFE (434 pp.)—Richard Hofstadter—Knopf ($6.95). To hear some tell it, U.S. intellectuals have been under siege in the modern world as never before. They should relax, ...

It has been 62 years since Richard Hofstadter published “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life,” and his conclusions have been validated continuously ever since, never more so than hearing that ...