Highly recommended reading.
Richard Hofstadter
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In July of 2017 thePew Research Centerpublished a detailed study of the current views of Americans regarding various institutions. One of those was higher education. The results showed that since 2015, Republicans, particularly Conservative Republicans place much less value on higher education and even that higher education has a negative effect on the country.
This should not be too surprising to anyone who studies American History. Our history is filled with anti-intellectual movements which are quite often tied in with conspiratorial world views, isolationism, and anti-immigrant or foreigner movements such as the Know Nothings, the Ku Klux Klan, and the original “America First” crowd. This has been a consistent drumbeat in American History, and yhe late historian Richard Hofstadter wrote:
“As a consequence, the heartland of America, filled with people who are often fundamentalist in religion, nativist in prejudice, isolationist in…
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The Secular Jurist 
Just read his post. He is excellent and of course, so are you.😊
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Thanks! 🙂
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Sad … tragic … disappointing … and harmful overall. But not surprising.
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What she said.
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Not surprised by the article. In fact, the opinions expressed in it are widely held, but perhaps not within the USA.
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It used to be widely held in the U.S.
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