I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column:
On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian Patrick (@pano.dime) who has dedicated
The crowd is the untruth! Therefore, there is basically no one who has more contempt for being human than those who stand at the head of the crowd.
Søren Kierkegaard