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The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-int

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jdbranded6 months, 3 weeks ago

An analysis of the rampant anti-intellectualism gripping our nation.
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