Andrew Jason Cohen 
Why is anti-intellectualism so persistent? Perhaps because it’s not an aberration at all. Andrew Jason Cohen argues that intellectual curiosity runs against some deeply human tendencies, then asks the more useful question: What allows curiosity to survive? His answer points toward education, free thought, free speech, and a society that gives people room to think.
Many people are writing about why Americans have lost trust in universities. There are, of course, financial reasons, including—at least plausibly—the now higher unemployment rates of recent college grads and the ever-increasing cost of tuition. I leave these to the side. Allow me here to quickly lay out what I see as a major reason …
I recently heard Jill Lepore, professor of history at Harvard University, on The Good Fight podcast. In discussing campus culture, she expressed dismay at the fact that some of her students had refused to read the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision (1857), which she had assigned. They refused, apparently, because it would cause them (or …
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