Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

Author:Richard Hofstadter [Hofstadter, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307809674
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2011-11-16T06:00:00+00:00

1 For a revealing contemporary encounter, see the interview with Bryan reported by John Reed in Collier’s, Vol. LVII (May 20, 1916), pp. 11 ff.

2 Merle Curti and Vernon Carstensen: The University of Wisconsin (Madison, 1949), Vol. I, p. 632. This work has a full-bodied account of the role of the university in the “Wisconsin idea.”

3 F. J. Turner: “Pioneer Ideals and the State University,” a commencement address delivered at the University of Indiana in 1910 and reprinted in The Frontier in American History (New York, 1920), pp. 285–6; italics are mine.

4 Charles McCarthy: The Wisconsin Idea (New York, 1912), pp. 228–9.

5 On political tension in the Van Hise era, see Curti and Carstensen: op. cit., Vol. II, especially pp. 4, 10–11, 19–21, 26, 40–1, 87–90, 97, 100–7, 550–2, 587–92.

6 John R. Commons: Myself (New York, 1934), p. 110. Cf. McCarthy: “As a general rule the professors wait until asked before venturing to give an opinion upon a public question.” Op. cit., p. 137; for a list of university personnel in the service of the state, see pp. 313–17.

7 Autobiography (Madison, Wisconsin, 1913), p. 32; on his use of university personnel, see pp. 26, 30–1, 310–11, 348–50.

8 See Robert S. Maxwell: Emanuel L. Philipp: Wisconsin Stalwart (Madison, Wisconsin, 1959), chapters 7 and 8, especially pp. 74, 76–9, 82, 91, 92, 96–104. The Nation saw a disheartening lesson on American anti-intellectualism in the attack on the university. “Between Demos and the professor,” it lamented, “there is a gulf of misunderstanding and ignorance unbridged since the days of Aristophanes.” “Demos and the Professor,” Vol. C (May 27, 1915), p. 596.

9 J. F. A. Pyre: Wisconsin (New York, 1920), pp. 347–51, 364–5.

1 The Wisconsin Idea, pp. 188–9; cf. p. 138. McCarthy’s point of view can best be understood against the background of the development of pragmatism and the rebellion against the older generation of scholars described in Morton G. White’s Social Thought in America: The Revolt against Formalism (New York, 1949).

2 Movers and Shakers (New York, 1936), p. 39.

3 B.P.: “College Professors and the Public,” Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LXXXIX (February, 1902), pp. 284–5.

4 See Joseph Lee: “Democracy and the Expert,” Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CII (November, 1908), pp. 611–20.

5 For example, the Chicago packer, Thomas E. Wilson, who pleaded before a Congressional committee in 1906: “What we are opposed to, and what we appeal to you for protection against is a bill that will put our business in the hands of theorists, chemists, sociologists, etc., and the management and control taken away from the men who have devoted their lives to the upbuilding and perfecting of this great American industry.” Lest it be imagined that Wilson was fighting against a proposal to nationalize the packing industry, it should be explained that he was appearing against a pure food and drug measure. House Committee on Agriculture, 59th Congress, 1st session, Hearings on the So-Called “Beveridge Amendment,” (Washington, 1906), p. 5. On the actual role of experts in the fight for food and drug control, see Oscar E.

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