Richard Aldous Revisits Richard Hofstadter’s Writings on Anti-Intellectualism in America
“Its blind spots about the lives and concerns of ordinary Americans meant that when the culture wars began to rage, from the mid-1960s onward, voices like his seemed not so much wrong as irrelevant to both right and left,” writes Professor Aldous in the Wall Street Journal. “The legacy of that dead end continues to haunt the middle ground of American politics to this day.”
Post Date: 08-12-2020
Post Date: 08-12-2020