Episode 144
Anti-Intellectualism in America (feat. C. Derick Varn)
February 27, 20262h 27m
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Show Notes
We discuss the roots of anti-intellectualism in American life for the first episode in a four-part series co-created and presented with C. Derick Varn, "The Problem of Intellectuals."
Learn more about C. Derick Varn by checking out his show "VarnVlog" https://www.patreon.com/c/varnvlog/posts
These are the primary readings we discuss:
- Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
- The American Intellectual Elite by Charles Kadushin
- The New Radicalism in America: The Intellectual as Social Type by Christopher Lasch
- The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class by Alvin Gouldner
- "The Missing Generation: Academics and the Communist Party from the Depression to the Cold War" by Ellen Schrecker