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#RichardHofstadter ha scritto dell'odio per gli intellettuali negli USA nel 1962.
La #LUISS non è "Servire il Popolo": la scelta di tradurre oggi #Hofstadter fa pensare che certe preoccupazioni abbiano fondati motivi di essere.
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"A university's essential character is that of being a centre of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else."
✒ #RichardHofstadter, American historian and author, #DOTD 24 October 1970. #History
“One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.”
#RichardHofstadter, historian (6 Aug 1916-1970)
"In a certain sense, the suspicious Tories and militant philistines are right: intellect is dangerous. Left free, there is nothing it will not reconsider, analyze, throw into question."
🎨 #RichardHofstadter, American historian and academic, was #BOTD 6 August 1916. #History
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#AntiIntellectualismInAmericanLife #FWakeY1963
#GenerationalRoots #FWakeGenerational
#FWakeAntiIntellectual #AntiIntellectual
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The Death of Intelligence: Why Modern Society Celebrates Stupidity. Part Two