Columbia gave the Marxist Institute a home on its own campus

Evidence

Much to his surprise, Butler offered the Institut affiliation with the university and a home in one of its buildings, at 429 West 117th Street. Horkheimer, fearing he had misunderstood Butler because of his limited command of English, wrote a four-page letter asking him to confirm and clarify his offer. Butler’s response was a laconic “You have understood me perfectly!” 119 And so the International Institute for Social Research, as revolutionary and Marxist as it had appeared in Frankfurt in the twenties, came to settle in the center of the capitalist world, New York City. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 180

Categorization

• CANDY: Butler’s laconic one-line reply to a four-page letter is a genuinely tweetable anecdote.
• XREF: connects to: Columbia University unexpectedly hosted the Marxist Institut in New York. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 180

Broader Connections

• Columbia University unexpectedly hosted the Marxist Institut in New York. #corroborates (0.98) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 180