February 16, 2008

Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

But now, Ms. Jacoby said, something different is happening:
anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a
dangerous thing”) and anti-rationalism (“the idea that there is no such
things as evidence or fact, just opinion”) have fused in a particularly
insidious way.


Not only are citizens ignorant about essential scientific, civic and
cultural knowledge, she said, but they also don’t think it matters.

Depressing.

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