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 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 ...

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 ...

There is a cult of anti-intellectualism in our country, and it did not arise in a single election cycle. Donald Trump represents the newest low in this downward race to the bottom, but there is surely ...

The late Gore Vidal once confessed, with characteristic rapier wit, “I love stupidity. It excites me.” But the excitement and hilarity of human foibles and failures diminish rapidly when the ...

Anti-intellectualism is a movement based on attacking thought that is achieved through research or deep thought. This includes well-known groups such as the anti-evolution movement and the modern-day ...

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 ...

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 ...

On June 10, a blogger named Zhou Xiaoping was elected to head the newly established China Online Writers Association in Sichuan Province. He thus followed the career path of another popular blogger, ...