The State of the American Mind : : 16 Leading Critics on the new Anti-Intellectualism
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Foreword-- America: Are we losing our mind? / Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow -- Introduction-- The knowledge requirement: what every American needs to know / E.D. Hirsch Jr. -- Part one-- States of mind: indicators of intellectual and cognitive decline. The troubling trend of cultural IQ / Marl Bauerlein -- Biblical literacy matters / Daniel L. Dreisbach -- Why Johnny and Joanie can't write, revisited / Gerald Graff -- College graduates: satisfies, but adrift / Richard Arum -- Anatomy of an epidemic / Robert Whitaker -- Part two-- Personal and cognitive habits/interests. A wired nation tunes out the news / David T.Z. Mindich -- Catching our eye : the alluring fallacy of knowing at a glance / Maggie Jackson -- The rise of the self and the decline of intellectual and civic interest / Jean M. Twenge -- Has internet-fueled conspiracy-mongering crested? / Jonathan Kay -- Part three-- National consequences. Dependency in America: American exceptionalism and the entitlement state / Nicholas Eberstadt -- Political ignorance in America / Ilya Somin -- In defense of difficulty: how the decline of the ideal of seriousness has dulled democracy in the name of phony populism / Steve Wasserman -- We live in the age of feelings / Dennis Prager -- How colleges create the "expectation of confirmation" / Greg Lukianoff -- The new antinomian attitude / R.R. Reno.
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PUBLISHED
West Conshohocken, PA : Templeton Press, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: xvii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781599474588
1599474581
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Bauerlein, Mark,
Bellow, Adam, 1957-
SUBJECTS
National characteristics, American.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.