Anti-Intellectualism in the USA
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Jason Richwine and the censoring of unpalatable academic research - Mail Online
Jason Richwine PhD was a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation from March 2010 to 9th May 2013.
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 15:53 GMT, 5 June 2012 | UPDATED: 15:57 GMT, 5 June 2012 Nearly half of Americans believe God created mankind in a single day about 10,000 years ago, a literal interpretation of the Bible, according to a new survey that shows the view toward evolution in the United States hasn't changed in 30 years.
Half of Americans believe in creationism and just 15 percent accept evolution
Who could have predicted it? Remember two years ago when the liberal Obama tides were sweeping the U.S.?
Anti-intellectualism: Political venom moves North
Charles, a Liberal Outposts reader from Virginia, wants to know why Michelle Bachman this week denigrated President Obama, as well as her fellow Republican primary opponent Newt Gingrich, by calling them "professorial."
Anti-Intellectualism: A Republican Weapon of Mass Delusion
Backwards "Reasoning" is Destroying Politics
June 28, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list:The Varieties of Anti-Intellectualism
One of the recurring features of American intellectual life is hand-wringing over “anti-intellectualism” by, of course, intellectuals.
The Dumbing Of America
"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.
Anti-intellectualism
Intellectual and anti-intellectual: Political cartoonist Thomas Nast contrasts the reedy scholar with the bovine boxer , epitomizing the populist view of reading and study as antithetical to sport and athleticism. Note the disproportionate heads/bodies, with the size of the head representing "mental" ability and intelligence, and the size of the body representing kinesthetic talent and "physical" ability.
