Hofstadter

[hof-stat-er, -stah-ter]

noun

1. Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.

2. Robert, 1915–90, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1961.

Hofstadter

1. American physicist who determined the inner structure of protons and neutrons (1948) and in 1961 shared with German physicist Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer the 1961 Nobel Prize for physics.

Example Sentences

In the 1960s, political scientist Richard Hofstadter wrote that America had periodically been swept by waves of conformist anti-intellectualism:

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As historian Richard Hofstadter warned in his seminal 1964 essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”:

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“But the modern right wing … feels dispossessed: America has been largely taken away from them and their kind,” Hofstadter wrote.

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By the time Hofstadter wrote that, the Red Scare had subsided, its loudest voices pushed to the fringe of U.S. politics.

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In a 1964 article in Harper’s, the historian Richard Hofstadter outlined what he called “the paranoid style” in American politics.

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