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 ====== Anti-Intellectualism in American Life ======
-Bear in mind while working through this book that Hofstadter was a centrist interested in moving academic discourse away from materialism and toward psychoanalysis.
+It's amazing to realize that Hofstadter was writing about a time now more than 60 years past; many of the issues he discusses feel lifted straight out of today's political climate. In this book, he highlights various strands of American hostility to intellect and intellectuals, arguing that this feature is deeply entrenched in the American identity.
+===== Questions =====
+  * How can we build a highly democratic society without discounting expertise?
+  * Can we have a church that values learning and discourse while remaining accessible to the congregation and without becoming overly ritualistic?
 ===== Chapter notes =====
+Bear in mind while working through this book that Hofstadter was something of a centrist interested in moving academic discourse away from materialism and toward psychoanalysis.
 ==== Anti-intellectualism in Our Time ====
   * this work, like others in Hofstadter's bibliography, exists very much in the shadow of 1950s McCarthyism
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 ===== Related works =====
-  * [[The Civil War as a Theological Crisis]]: should provide additional detail on inter- and intra-denominational schisms, particularly where the issue of slavery was concerned
+  * [[the_civil_war_as_a_theological_crisis|The Civil War as a Theological Crisis]]: should provide additional detail on inter- and intra-denominational schisms, particularly where the issue of slavery was concerned
+  * [[:reading:Jesus and John Wayne|Jesus and John Wayne]]: expands on the heavy masulinization of evangelical Christianity
+{{tag>history politics}}
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+readinglist.author   : Hofstadter
+readinglist.title    : Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
+readinglist.summary  : It's amazing to realize that Hofstadter was writing about a time now more than 60 years past; many of the issues he discusses feel lifted straight out of today's political climate. In this book, he highlights various strands of American hostility to intellect and intellectuals, arguing that this feature is deeply entrenched in the American identity.
+readinglist.status   : reading
+readinglist.subjects : history, politics
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