“The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” — Isaac Asimov, “A Cult of Ignorance,” Newsweek (1980-01-21)
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“The current wave of anti-intellectualism, then, is more of a discredit to the age than it is an inconvenience for the intellectual.” — Louis Lomax, “The Act and Art of Nonconformity,” The Realist (February 1959)