Article note: The irony that two years later this article about trying to break down paywalls on scientific publishing has been paywalled is a pretty good sign of the state of things.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”