Nut Meg’s Reviews > Anti-Intellectualism in American Life > Status Update
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"Right-wing hostility to universities was in part a question of deference and social status, but in part also a reflection of the old Jacksonian dislike of specialists and experts."
— Sep 17, 2025 07:14PM
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Nut Meg
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"As their legatee, the modern intellectual inherits the vulnerability of the aristocrat to the animus of puritanism and egalitarianism and the vulnerability of the priest to anticlericalism and popular assaults on hierarchy."
— Sep 25, 2025 06:50PM
Nut Meg
is on page 30 of 434
"The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties."
— Sep 25, 2025 06:34PM
Nut Meg
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"In so far as Anti-intellectualism becomes articulate enough to be traced historically or widespread enough to make itself felt in contemporary controversy, it has to have spokesmen who are at least to some degree competent. These spokesmen are in the main neither the uneducated nor the unintellectual, but rather the marginal intellectuals, would-be intellectuals, unfrocked or embittered intellectuals"
— Sep 17, 2025 07:47PM
Nut Meg
is on page 7 of 434
"Anti-intellectual is a resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind and of those who are considered to represent it"
— Sep 17, 2025 04:07PM
