Anti Intellectualism Books
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,724 ratings — published 1963
The Age of American Unreason (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,272 ratings — published 2008
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.82 — 10,242 ratings — published 2017
Ashes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,164 ratings — published 2010
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,904,839 ratings — published 2018
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,223 ratings — published 2008
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.23 — 57,605 ratings — published 2018
The Assault on Reason (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,376 ratings — published
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.17 — 39,752 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,898,147 ratings — published 1953
More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.68 — 140 ratings — published 2010
Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Near Futures, 9)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.07 — 608 ratings — published
Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.48 — 503 ratings — published 2008
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.58 — 31 ratings — published 2008
Anti-Enlightenment Tradition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.91 — 53 ratings — published 2006
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,816 ratings — published 2024
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.99 — 71 ratings — published
Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,841 ratings — published 2019
The Closing of the American Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,025 ratings — published 1987
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,108 ratings — published 2009
What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,188 ratings — published 2020
A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.60 — 790 ratings — published 2019
Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,559 ratings — published 2015
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,616 ratings — published 2004
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,080 ratings — published 2020
The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,290 ratings — published 2020
The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.33 — 612 ratings — published 2020
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,984 ratings — published 1907
The Topeka School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.51 — 28,675 ratings — published 2019
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,410 ratings — published 2019
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,340 ratings — published 2010
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,104 ratings — published 2012
State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.98 — 56 ratings — published 2008
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,849 ratings — published 2017
The Flight of the Intellectuals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.05 — 222 ratings — published 2010
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,916 ratings — published 2017
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,364 ratings — published 1978
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,051 ratings — published 2004
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.94 — 616 ratings — published 2000
Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man: The Crockumentary Dissected―Camera Tricks, Spinning Statistics, and the Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.46 — 335 ratings — published 2004
Main Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,037 ratings — published 1920
American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.57 — 14 ratings — published 2011
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,635,685 ratings — published 2012
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,151,237 ratings — published 2013
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,422,414 ratings — published 2011
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,107,447 ratings — published 1932
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.12 — 1,909 ratings — published 2001
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,636 ratings — published 2008
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,868 ratings — published 2004
Is Google Making Us Stupid? (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-intellectualism)
avg rating 3.91 — 128 ratings — published 2008
“I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.”
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“This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.”
― The Age of American Unreason
― The Age of American Unreason
