Columbia University unexpectedly hosted the Marxist Institut in New York.

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!” … 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

• XREF: Connects to the irony of a Marxist institute being housed inside American capitalism’s home institution — a theme echoed in later Frankfurt School accounts of the American exile. — connects to: Columbia University may have manufactured the blight that justified its land seizures — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1080; Columbia gave the Marxist Institute a home on its own campus — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 180; Atlanta University’s insulated campus sheltered a self-sufficient black intellectual community from Jim Crow — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 77
• CANDY: The detail of Horkheimer’s four-page confirmation letter and Butler’s terse reply is a charming, Tweetable anecdote about refugee scholar and American university president.

Broader Connections

• Columbia University may have manufactured the blight that justified its land seizures #corroborates (0.72) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1080