How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America

AlterNet by Terrence McNally, Susan Jacoby | Aug. 18, 2008 (Interview)
Sad but true: Intelligence is a political liability in the US.

"It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant." Barack Obama finally said it.

Though a successful political and electoral strategy, the Right's stand against intelligence has steered them far off course, leaving them -- and us -- unable to deal successfully with the complex and dynamic circumstances we face as a nation and a society. Full Story »

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 by Jim Caruso - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a Q&A with Susan Jacoby, author of "The Age of American Unreason," a book about American anti-intellectualism, and writer for "On Faith," a Washington Post-Newsweek blog on religion. It provides a broad perspecitve on the issue of anti-intellectualism and the effect on the competitiveness of the USA. The discussion also comments on a uniquely American political system and culture that perpetuates and encourages an ignorance of and distain for fact.

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