Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Daily Kos: Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying Democracy In America

Daily Kos: Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying Democracy In America:

"Anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism have become almost epidemic in America. In fact, a talented writer by the name of Susan Jacoby wrote an important book several years ago titled The Age of American Unreason. "

This is a very, very old story, a very old tradition. Hofstadter's monumental book on this came out in 1966. It was an old story then when he wrote about it.

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