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  • And the historian Richard Hofstadter must be spinning in his grave as Lowenstein distorts his work to slur bank critics with the concept of "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," a term Hofstadter applied to McCarthyism and conspiracy theories in general.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com RJ 2011

  • "Pseudo-conservative" was another term Hofstadter used to describe the far-right fringe: "pseudo" because they didn't embrace conservatism's "temperate and compromising spirit."

    Thomas Frank: From John Birchers to Birthers 2009

  • Hofstadter is advocating no such thing as the objective view of history, only that some viewpoints can be verified while others will forever remain subjective, as they are not bound by rationality.

    9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing 2009

  • Hofstadter is advocating no such thing as the objective view of history, only that some viewpoints can be verified while others will forever remain subjective, as they are not bound by rationality.

    9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing 2009

  • Hmm, it seems more feasible if you note the astronaut in the full photo is Dr. Leonard Hofstadter from the CBS series "The Big Bang Theory."

    Roger Gort. Klaatu barada nikto. Over. - NASA Watch 2008

  • It was in Hofstadter's group that I began my long collaboration with Henry Kendall who was also a member of the group.

    Jerome I. Friedman - Autobiography 1991

  • The experimental method used by Hofstadter is connected with the principles of the ordinary electron microscope.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1961 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • Here, in one of the most lucid treatments available in English, Hofstadter carefully identifies all the leading participants, and dissects the three successive hearings that Galileo was subjected to.

    physicsworld.com: all content 2009

  • Here, in one of the most lucid treatments available in English, Hofstadter carefully identifies all the leading participants, and dissects the three successive hearings that Galileo was subjected to.

    physicsworld.com: all content 2009

  • Atlantic Southern President Mark Stevens called Hofstadter a "great encourager" who brings

    Macon Telegraph: Homepage 2009

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