A study identifying anti-intellectualism as a growing part of rural identities has sparked a discussion about the best ways of encouraging rural communities to engage with scientific expertise. The ...

The tragedy in Charleston last week will no doubt lead to more discussion of several important and recurring issues in American culture—particularly racism and gun violence—but these dialogues are ...

My last post, Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America, spotlighted the problem of anti-reason in American society, pointing out that it is widespread and doing much harm. A few days after the piece ...

The phenomenal rise of Donald Trump has alarmed many observers over the revival of anti-intellectualism in American society. But America is not the only country that is being afflicted by ...

The 1955 publication of John Tracy Ellis's article, "American Catholics and the Intellectual Life," sparked new discussion among historians about the role of intellectualism in the lives of American ...

There’s a popular meme about over-analysis in English class referring to the hypothetical text ‘the curtains were blue.’ The joke goes that the English teacher would pontificate about these colored ...

The term “anti-intellectualism” emerged in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century, appearing in 1911 in the then well-known (if now largely forgotten) radical John Spargo’s ...

Something of a double-edged sword, the online sphere has always offered outlets for critical discussion. The false sense of ...

An intellectual is generally thought of as an anti-establishment entity supposed to speak for and on behalf of the nation’s downtrodden. But in postcolonial states like Pakistan, much of ...

This nation does not take kindly to honest talk from black folks who speak cogently about the sinister machinations of race and power that underlie everyday life in America. To assume the designation ...