Are Americans anti-intellectual? Evan Kindley asked this question Monday in a review of historian Aaron Lecklider’s book Inventing the Egghead. In the book, Lecklider probes American’s assorted feelings of derision, stereotype, and awe toward the cognitive elite. “We oscillate wildly between demonizing our intellectuals and deifying them,” writes Kindley. “They appear to us, in turn, as nuisances, threats, and saviors.”
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