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Anti-intellectualism is usually ambivalence; pure dislike of intellect is uncommon
Drawn from what Richard Hofstadter said
What Richard Hofstadter actually said
- Richard Hofstadter Historian (1916 to 1970) whose Anti-Intellectualism…
As an attitude, it is not usually found in a pure form but in ambivalence — a pure and unalloyed dislike of intellect or intellectuals is uncommon.
Where this was said
↗Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Knopf, 1963)archive.org
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