intellectualism

• “Quite logically the new spirit is in revolt against what it calls intellectualism, which means the application of the dry light of reason to the problems of human life.”

  The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

• “No real activities and indeed no real connexions of any kind can obtain if we follow the conceptual logic; for to be distinguishable, according to what I call intellectualism, is to be incapable of connexion.”

  A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy

• “Anti-intellectualism is a winning political card in the US (Rush Limbaugh, anyone?), although Stephen Harper, who has tried to import that approach most recently in the case of Michael Ignatieff, is finding it a tougher sell here, other than in the backwoods where his base howls and prowls.”

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• “But I'm afraid that won't have any effect on an unhinged base for whom anti-intellectualism is a virtue.”

  CNN Poll: President's approval on health care under 50 percent

• “Since populism dictates that the elite are evil, intellectualism is inherently evil and should be opposed at all costs. for evidence see evolution deniers, climate change deniers, vaccine lawsuits, etc ...”

  Environmentalists On Hunters

• “Your statement about anti-intellectualism is right on the money.”

  Environmentalists On Hunters

• “The guy may like to posture as a possible martyr to left-wing orthodoxy in the academy, but posturing, and pandering to anti-intellectualism, is all he's doing.”

  Liquidity Trap or Statism Trap?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “I just see this strong surge of anti-intellectualism from the right and I remember Palin tried to fire a librarian because the woman refused to remove books that were considered offensive … you hear them railing against colleges, scientists and academia in general.”

  Think Progress » White House Signals That It Will Fight Back Against GOP Abuse Of Filibuster

• “Because they are a bunch of f***wits who think that God and the free market are the greatest things since the invention of sliced bread while environmentalism and intellectualism is a sin.”

  Think Progress » Former Bush officials rip Tea Parties: They’re ‘outrageous,’ based on ‘fear and hatred,’ bad for GOP.

• “The relevance of intellectualism is waning in that ideology, and more and more of its former stars are being unwillingly shoved leftward toward the center as the ‘aim for the lowest common denominator’ populist movement takes over.”

  Think Progress » Health Insurers’ Duplicitous Campaign Confirmed: Industry Covertly Gave Millions To Fund Anti-Reform Ads

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