Article note: It took me a while to have time to sit down and read this - it's not short - but it's a fabulous piece.
Also, I'm apparently overdue to reread the bridge trilogy.
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.”