Why MAGA Hates You for Reading Books
In 1963, historian Richard Hofstadter at Columbia University published a book that would win him his second Pulitzer Prize. It was called Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. And it answered a question that most people were afraid to ask out loud.
Why do so many Americans hate educated people?
It had nothing to do with intelligence.
It was about resentment.
Hofstadter defined anti-intellectualism as “a resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind and of those who are considered to represent it.” He found that Americans did not distrust experts because experts were wrong. They distrusted…
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