Exiled scholars practiced drastic self-censorship about their host country.

Evidence

The fact that the host country, the United States, was never mentioned at all in the chapters on the twentieth century, which according to the preface were all writtenalong with the introductionby Kirchheimer, was clearly the result of drastic caution. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 255

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The book arguing penal policy follows labor-market conditions omitted the U.S. entirely — caution so drastic it mutilated the argument’s own twentieth-century evidence.
• XREF: Echoes the Institute’s broader pattern of self-censoring Marxist vocabulary for American funders. — connects to: Fear of US Customs deportation forced emigre scholars to abandon their radical libraries — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 166; Institutional dependence on sponsorship tempted Critical Theorists into self-censorship. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 457; Ongoing self-censorship risked systematically distorting the Institute’s research priorities — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1722 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Fear of US Customs deportation forced emigre scholars to abandon their radical libraries — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 166; Institutional dependence on sponsorship tempted Critical Theorists into self-censorship. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 457; Ongoing self-censorship risked systematically distorting the Institute’s research priorities — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1722 (+1 more)