What is the cost of lies?  In the age of the common man, or at least the facade of such, what value does truth provide? In a ...

A study identifying anti-intellectualism as a growing part of rural identities has sparked a discussion about the best ways of encouraging rural communities to engage with scientific expertise. The ...

The tragedy in Charleston last week will no doubt lead to more discussion of several important and recurring issues in American culture—particularly racism and gun violence—but these dialogues are ...

My last post, Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America, spotlighted the problem of anti-reason in American society, pointing out that it is widespread and doing much harm. A few days after the piece ...

Debates of BookTok's anti-intellectualism have taken the community by storm in recent weeks. But what makes a book ...

The phenomenal rise of Donald Trump has alarmed many observers over the revival of anti-intellectualism in American society. But America is not the only country that is being afflicted by ...

The 1955 publication of John Tracy Ellis's article, "American Catholics and the Intellectual Life," sparked new discussion among historians about the role of intellectualism in the lives of American ...

The twenty-first century’s version of the Know-Nothing Party has taken the wanton disregard for knowledge to dizzyingly destructive heights. Future generations will be astounded to learn that in the ...

There’s a popular meme about over-analysis in English class referring to the hypothetical text ‘the curtains were blue.’ The joke goes that the English teacher would pontificate about these colored ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The late Gore Vidal once confessed, with characteristic rapier wit, “I love stupidity. It excites me.” But the excitement and hilarity of human foibles and failures diminish rapidly when the ...