The Frankfurt School Conspiracy Theories

The Frankfurt School is a group of Marxists who came to the United States in the 1930s. They were concerned about fascism and authoritarianism more broadly, as well as Soviet Union's growing authoritarianism. And so when they come to the U.S., they kind of bring these anxieties with them that are tied into their larger social engineering projects. The piece also touches on this sort of patrician northeastern wasp kind of anxiety about the American demos.