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For many commentators, the present age reminds them of Richard Hofstadter's writings on the paranoid style. Proliferation of references, however, does not mean consistency of terminology. How did Hofstadter conceive of Far Right rhetoric? This article is an interpretive analysis, focusing first on ...
At least since the publication of Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," belief in conspiracy theories has been seen as an aberrational, fringe phenomenon. But what if is isn't? A2014 studyby Eric Oliver and Thomas Wood of the University of Chicago found that ...
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In Sections 3 When is optimism unrealistic?, 4 Are optimistically biased beliefs irrational?, we consider their epistemic status. Are they typically false? Are they epistemically irrational? The answers to these questions will be informed by an analysis of the extent to which optimistically biased...
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But this is somewhat paranoid - machines creating art does not abuse nor prevent human beings from making art. However, if machines were curating, deciding on art submissions from human artists, then this is a different issue. Yet a similar phenomenon is already upon us on the battlefield, ...
A“strongman” (or woman) is somebody who rules a country by undermining and weakening rules, regulations, constitutional mandates and restrictions. And often that’s done very stealthily. Before, we had the old kind of strongman, the Mobutus of the world, the Francos, the Hitlers. And then...
This was a part of an FAA study of new airport lighting, according to a Facebook post from the Sheriff's Office, who added that there is no need to be concerned by the lights. There is the possibility that the test will continue Wednesday into Wednesday night. ...
"He introduced a paranoid style to American politics." Burr was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1756, the scion of a distinguished colonial family. His maternal grandfather was the famous evangelist Jonathan Edwards, and both he and Burr's father, Aaron Burr, Sr. ascended to the presidency ...