The tragedy in Charleston last week will no doubt lead to more discussion of several important and recurring issues in American culture—particularly racism and gun violence—but these dialogues are ...

The phenomenal rise of Donald Trump has alarmed many observers over the revival of anti-intellectualism in American society. But America is not the only country that is being afflicted by ...

The 1955 publication of John Tracy Ellis's article, "American Catholics and the Intellectual Life," sparked new discussion among historians about the role of intellectualism in the lives of American ...

The twenty-first century’s version of the Know-Nothing Party has taken the wanton disregard for knowledge to dizzyingly destructive heights. Future generations will be astounded to learn that in the ...

There’s a popular meme about over-analysis in English class referring to the hypothetical text ‘the curtains were blue.’ The joke goes that the English teacher would pontificate about these colored ...

The term “anti-intellectualism” emerged in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century, appearing in 1911 in the then well-known (if now largely forgotten) radical John Spargo’s ...

Something of a double-edged sword, the online sphere has always offered outlets for critical discussion. The false sense of ...

As a kid, my favorite part of grocery shopping wasn’t the snacks or the cereal aisle, it was the tabloids at the checkout. I’d devour headlines about Batboy sightings, Bigfoot vacations, royal ...

An intellectual is generally thought of as an anti-establishment entity supposed to speak for and on behalf of the nation’s downtrodden. But in postcolonial states like Pakistan, much of ...