Anti-Intellectualism in America (feat. C. Derick Varn)

We discuss the roots of anti-intellectualism in American life for the first episode in a four-part series co-created and presented with C. Derick Varn, "The Problem of Intellectuals."

Learn more about C. Derick Varn by checking out his show "VarnVlog" https://www.patreon.com/c/varnvlog/posts

These are the primary readings we discuss:

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

The American Intellectual Elite by Charles Kadushin

The New Radicalism in America: The Intellectual as Social Type by Christopher Lasch

The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class by Alvin Gouldner

"The Missing Generation: Academics and the Communist Party from the Depression to the Cold War" by Ellen Schrecker