Scott Horton ”The paranoid style in American politics”Harper's August 2007 http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000908
Richard Hofstadter ”The paranoid style in American politics”*1の解説。Hofstadterのこのテクストは”one of the most important and most influential articles published in the 155 year history of the magazine”であるという。また、このテクストが書かれた時代背景について；
Hofstadterも「パラノイアなスタイル」は米国特有の現象ではないと述べていたが、Hofstadterテーゼの米国以外の事例への適用可能性について。蘇聯崩壊後の露西亜におけるウラディミール・ジリノフスキー。また、言及されているFritz Stern*3の著書は19世紀独逸におけるナショナリズム・反自由主義思想についてのもの；
In the October 1964, America was moving towards an historic election contest: Lyndon Johnson was seeking election in his own right, and the Republican Party had nominated Barry Goldwater. One of the major issues in the election was the rightward drift of the G.O.P. Against this backdrop, Richard J. Hofstadter published “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” (PDF*2 ).
最後に、現代における「パラノイアなスタイル」として、（911以後の）イスラーム脅威論、特に「イスラーム的ファシズム（Islamo-Fascism）」という規定が批判されている。
I first read Hofstadter in my college years in the seventies. Traveling and working abroad I had occasion to think about his theories. In Russia in the early nineties, for instance, I found that the rise of Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his efforts to craft a political movement followed a pattern close to the one that Hofstadter described. It was successful, but only within bounds.And then we have the one really commanding example–the country in which the “paranoid style” perhaps went the furthest and had the greatest impact. That would be Germany in the period from roughly 1880 to the end of World War II. Hofstadter’s Columbia colleague, and my friend, Fritz Stern, wrote what may be a definitive application of the Hofstadter thesis in The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology, which was actually published three years before the Hofstadter article.
ところで、文中にKnow-Nothingsという19世紀の政治運動が言及されている。これは19世紀半ば頃からのアイルランド系を中心とするカトリック移民の増大に対応した反カトリック運動。共和党はそもそもKnow-Nothingsに対する「対抗運動」（反「パラノイア」運動）として結成された。その共和党が〈現代のKnow-Nothings〉になりかけているのは皮肉といえば皮肉*4。
Know-Nothingsについては、
“Know Nothing” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing
“Knownothingism” http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08677a.htm
*1:http://www.harpers.org/archive/1964/11/0014706 See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110624/1308884616 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110627/1309150169 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110709/1310229320
*2:http://www.harpers.org/media/pages/1964/11/pdf/HarpersMagazine-1964-11-0014706.pdf
*3:See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Stern
*4:例えば、ポール･クルーグマンの”The Town Hall Mob”http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/opinion/07krugman.html、“Climate of Hate” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/opinion/10krugman.html、“Abraham Lincoln, Inflationist” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/opinion/11krugman.htmlとかを参照されたい。See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090810/1249921507 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110111/1294690248 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110214/1297620740
