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 ...

Richard Hofstadter, the Buffalo-born historian, died in 1970, but his works remain just as timely in our time. “Today we are not only aware of our own violence; we are frightened by it,” he wrote that ...

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 ...

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