Exiled intellectuals needed proximity to centers of power to avoid isolation.

Evidence

I am afraid that even if we should succeed in creating a material basis in Los Angeles, I could not stay there for the duration. If you are not in New York and or Washington, you lose all contacts with the centers of power (inadequate and feeble as these our contacts may be) and you land in utter isolation. I am not so sure whether it would not influence badly your work if you would not know that you have a comparatively good watchdog on the East coast [sic]. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 338

Categorization

• SHARE: Pollock’s self-description as Horkheimer’s ‘comparatively good watchdog’ is a wry, specific image any reader of Institute history would enjoy.
• XREF: Illustrates the geography of exile that shaped the Institute’s wartime work in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles. — connects to: Émigré intellectuals forfeited their political judgment along with their rights. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 280; Institutional disintegration resulted partly from the scattering of exiled scholars — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1029; Neoliberalism was forged by exiled intellectuals across many cities, not born in one place — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 113 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Émigré intellectuals forfeited their political judgment along with their rights. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 280; Institutional disintegration resulted partly from the scattering of exiled scholars — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1029; Neoliberalism was forged by exiled intellectuals across many cities, not born in one place — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 113 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism was forged by exiled intellectuals across many cities, not born in one place #complicates (0.74) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 113
• Provincial isolation can coexist with civilization’s unearned confidence #complicates (0.72) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 532