Fundamentalism and anti-intellectualism in the United States
Explore the rise of fundamentalism and anti-intellectualism in the United States, with a critical list of books analyzing their impact on culture, politics, and education.
Book
The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby
Traces the current of anti-intellectualism from post-WWII to the present and argues that the nation's cult of unreason is both deadly and destructive.