The Nation, May 4th, 1992
The relationship between politics and intellectual life, at the center of today's debate over political correctness," multiculturalism and other real and imagined sins of the academy, is hardly a new phenomenon. Throughout our history, contemporary political problems and commitments have shaped the questions Americans asked about their past and the answers they found. The career of Richard Hofstadter, the finest historian of his generation, offers a case in point. The reissue of his first book, Social Darwinism in American Thought, provides an opportunity to consider Hofstadter's own intellect...
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