This was a good read. It's almost more a war on knowledge rather than just a war on education. Are there any historians out there who could comment whether this trend of younger or less educated criticizing those more knowledgeable extends back decades or centuries? Galileo being labeled a heretic comes to mind. Is this nothing new?
If you liked that you would probably like a lot of his essays for Time. He pens one every week or two. He is a great and prolific writer who must also have an extensive research team. In addition to an impressive list of non-fiction and kids books I read today that he just made his debut as a fiction writer with a novel about Sherlocke Holmes' brother. I might give it a try. And TIL Kareem graduated as a history major from UCLA.
Thanks ducky. I had not seen that before. Oh man that reporter really does not like KAJ huh. I had never heard that perspective.
Well, I don't know about that far back, but anti intellectualism is not a recent phenomenon here in The States.
I thought this article was about a whole different subject, hearing about colleges censoring and protecting students from "bad ideas". Then: Never is there a big pull to force everyone to think and act a certain way, to have opinions that are popular or moral, to push emotional biases and get people to think in line with what is "right". This is done by the left, just as much as the right, under just as much of an emotional-appeal, and with the same consequences. Of course, one shouldn't tolerate "bigotry".That means this is a war on reason. And the generals leading the attack are mostly conservative politicians and pundits who have characterized our greatest thinkers as “elitists” who look down on everyone else.