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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination signals a new era of anti-intellectualism in American politics

San Francisco Chronicle 29 Jan 2025
While anti-intellectualism and populism are nothing new in American life, there has hardly been an administration as seemingly committed to these worldviews ... .
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Trump and MAGA Embrace Their Own Form of Wokeness

New York Magazine 29 Jan 2025
As much as the great swath of anti-woke writers, politicians, and pundits would insist otherwise, they share many of the same pathologies as their intellectual rivals ... It’s the same logic the anti-woke usually abhor most.
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The Antisemitism Settlements Made Progress. Will Harvard Follow Through?

The Harvard Crimson 28 Jan 2025
As Izabella Tabarovsky, a scholar of Soviet and leftist antisemitism, puts it, “claiming that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are not the same may make for an interesting intellectual exercise.
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This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Remember Gaza

The Harvard Crimson 28 Jan 2025
Growing up, I was consumed by the scale of the Holocaust’s destruction ... *** ... Coming on Trump’s second day in office, its terms scream spinelessness and an alarming acquiescence to a right-wing, anti-intellectual agenda ... *** ... The irony is piercing ... .
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How Donald Trump is making religion great again

New York Post 25 Jan 2025
Anti-colonial intellectual Franz Fanon was a forefather of our current anti-Western left ... As intellectual descendants of Franz Fanon and Herbert Marcuse — forerunners to the anti-Western left — these ...
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Africa will play a crucial role in the rising new world

Beijing News 25 Jan 2025
The forum's founding session, held in February 2024, saw broad representation from African participants, resulting in the creation of the anti-colonial 'For the Freedom of Nations!' movement.
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Washington’s High Priestess

The Atlantic 24 Jan 2025
... this sorry state, in which anti-intellectualism, populist rage at established institutions, and the thirst for ever more bizarre conspiracy theories have run riot over good sense and established fact.
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The 15 Best Dr. Watsons, Ranked

New York Magazine 24 Jan 2025
The farcical anti-mystery plot opens up the sharp, intellectual Watson to a world of chaos and abandon, and while the whole thing reeks of a play that closed after four weeks, Woodward’s performance ...
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Ghais Guevara: “We live in an anti-intellectual world. Rap, at its core, is intellectual. I ...

NME 23 Jan 2025
Instead of Abbott’s Spielbergian street thriller, the city captured on the record is one born from the window ledge of Robinson’s North Philly home, rooted in Black liberation and anti-capitalist ideals ... We live in an anti-intellectual world.
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Ohio State student fight against 'dumbification' teaches lesson about fight |Opinion

The Columbus Dispatch 23 Jan 2025
The student protest against Senate Bill 1 that would "dumbify" Ohio's world-class colleges and universities with anti-intellectual rules points to a larger issue that disengaged, disconnected and disillusioned Ohio voters should take notes of.
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Police raid shops over illegal CBD sales

CyprusMail 22 Jan 2025
Officers from a range of specialised units took part in the operation, including the anti-intellectual property crime and illegal betting unit, the cyber crime subdivision, and the anti-drug unit ...
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Why everyone is quoting Hannah Arendt, sometimes even accurately

Sun Sentinel 22 Jan 2025
“She was very anti-ideological ...The Origins of Totalitarianism,” published in 1951, established her reputation and her place as one of the “New York Intellectuals,” a largely Jewish tribe of left-leaning, anti-Stalinist writers.
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Letters: Hofstadter book never more accurate than now

East Bay Times 21 Jan 2025
It has been 62 years since Richard Hofstadter published “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life,” and his conclusions have been validated continuously ever since, never more so than hearing that “Governor Newscum” is to blame for the L.A.
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I'm more qualified than Pete Hegseth for Defense secretary. You might be, too. | Opinion

Usatoday 21 Jan 2025
His senior thesis adviser was current Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen, whom I’ve recently criticized for his anti-constitutional support for Catholic Integralism in America.
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Chris McCausland: ‘Yonks!’ review – mischievous Strictly winner goes back to the day job

The Observer 20 Jan 2025
... – like the resolutely anti-PC joke set in his local pub, or the closing anecdote about a recent rectal examination ... In its place, a blokey, anti-intellectual but fun-loving and self-mocking Chris.

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