Maybe This Explains Conservative Anti-Intellectualism

2014-01-13 W F Buckley Jr

The stereotype is that conservatives are dumb. Anti-science. Anti-intellectual.



Well if this is intellectualism, it’s cyanide for our society, and the only reasonable course when you have swallowed poison is to vomit it out again. Thus: the repugnance with which the Ivory Tower has come to be seen by large swathes of the American people is justified. They are right. The intellectuals, if this is any benchmark, are wrong. This is less directly applicable outside the humanities, but the politicization of the sciences means that they are not immune either.