Status Updates From 美国的反智传统

"Furious menaces and bellowing exaggeration take the place of calm and dignified debate...Congress attains the unenviable fame of being the most helpless, disorderly, and inefficient legislative body which can be found in the civilized world." Lol some things never change

Started this on audible for free, but the free version went away before I could finish it. Now I am picking up where I left off with the print version.

"It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals; for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant, or a scapegoat."

"The literature of the extreme right also shows a significant continuity in style-- indicative of the degree to which the pattern of fundamentalism has become the pattern of militant nationalism."

"Men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken"

"The effect of the evangelical impulse, of the search for a new religious style to reach the people and save souls, was to dilute the strong intellectual and educational traditions of the Presbyterians and the Congregationalists."

Very very hard to read, but makes me feel very smart when I understand what he’s saying.