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Anti-intellectualism is resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind and those who represent it
Drawn from what Richard Hofstadter said
What Richard Hofstadter actually said
- Richard Hofstadter Historian (1916 to 1970) whose Anti-Intellectualism…
The common strain that binds together the attitudes and ideas which I call anti-intellectual is a resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind and of those who are considered to represent it; and a disposition constantly to minimize the value of that life.
Where this was said
↗Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Knopf, 1963)archive.org
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