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Katie Couric said resentfulness stemming from globalization is driving the anti-establishment Trump voter to the voting booth in an interview with Bill Maher on his podcast 'Club Random.' "I think that is a huge problem that we have to address," Couric said. "Globalization and the transition from an industrial to a technological society. I don't know if you've ever been jealous of what someone else has or resentful. It is such a corroding and bitter, almost vile feeling. I think that when people who are really struggling see people who have everything and are on top of that looking down...

Former CBS ”Evening News” anchor Katie Couric said Sunday on comedian Bill Maher’s podcast “Club Random” that many of former President Donald Trump’s voters were driven by anti-intellectualism. Couric said, “I’m talking about overall income inequality and even taking race out of it, the huge chasm between the uber, uber, uber wealthy and people who don’t have 400 dollars in and emergency, it has never been such a stark divide.” She continued, “The socio-economic disparities are a lot and class resentment is a lot and anti-intellectualism and elitism is what is driving many of these anti-establishment, which are Trump voters,...

Every year at this time, it is incumbent upon us columnists to gird ourselves with chest-high waders and a deluxe trash grabber as we venture back through the muddy waters of another annum in search of significance. Sometimes, it’s as clear as the pimple on a teenager’s nose. Other times it’s as obscure as the reason why anyone would invest their life savings in blockchain — whatever that is. Usually, it’s a mixed bag. You pays your money and you takes your choice. For me, I’m going to remember 2019 as the Democrats’ last stand. The party of Thomas Jefferson...

If one had to read one columnist to appreciate the state of contemporary left-wing commentary, my nomination would be Frank Rich of the Sunday New York Times. No well-known leftist columnist better exemplifies the worst aspects of today's left. Virtually every piece is filled with anger, filled with ad hominem responses to arguments, filled with insults of opponents and at the same time devoid of intellectual arguments. A Frank Rich column is essentially a weekly tantrum meant to make his readers nod in agreement and reinforce their contempt for those who differ with them. I offer this past Sunday's column...

Neo-Luddite and Undiagnosed hysterical lunatic Harvard Physics Professor Alex Wissner-Gross has released a study that asserts that Google searches and web browsing cause global warming, presumably using some kind of scientific methodology.

Among the many wonders to be expected from an Obama administration, if Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times is to be believed, is ending "the anti-intellectualism that has long been a strain in American life." He cited Adlai Stevenson, the suave and debonair governor of Illinois, who twice ran for president against Eisenhower in the 1950s, as an example of an intellectual in politics. Intellectuals, according to Mr. Kristof, are people who are "interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity," people who "read the classics." It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry. Adlai Stevenson was...

[...]Selected from a third-grade geography curriculum, the $25,000 question asked: “Budapest is the capital of what European country?” Ms. Pickler threw up both hands [...] perplexed. “I thought Europe was a country,” she said. [...] “Hungry?” she said, eyes widening in disbelief. “That’s a country? I’ve heard of Turkey. But Hungry? I’ve never heard of it.” [...] But now, [...] something different is happening: anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a dangerous thing”) and anti-rationalism (“the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion”) have fused in a particularly insidious way. Not...

Judge John E. Jones III struck down a policy passed by the Dover Area School Board that brought into question Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. He even went as far as to call those board members who supported the policy liars. Read More... Craig DeLuz Visit The Home of Uncommon Sense... www.craigdeluz.com

After George W. Bush told reporters he'd been reading the same book for two months, late-night television host Conan O'Brien wisecracked that it was probably because he hadn't found Waldo yet. It's a good joke, but it dovetails with a persistent line of sneering we've been hearing against the US President for years: he has no serious intellectual interests, so he doesn't belong in the White House. I happen to believe he does belong in the White House, but I don't plan to argue that point here: first, because this is not the opinion page and, second, because I'm concerned...

Jan 06, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.comby staff reports From reports, David H. Smith, Newsbriefs CorrespondentHIP HOP ACCOUNTABILITY – AND THE LARGER ISSUE OF ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM FreeMarketNews.Com, Jan. 6, 2005 - The New York Daily News reports on what may portend a possible sea change in outlook at the offices of Essence, the nation’s most successful black women’s magazine. And it may not stop there. Essence’s editor, Diane Weathers comments: “We started looking at the media war on young girls, the hypersexualization that keeps pushing them in sexual directions at younger and younger ages.” She told the News, “We started talking at the...

I have worked as a school psychologist in the state of Illinois for over eight years and I have had the rare privilege of enjoying the vast majority of those days. This is truly a rare statement among American adults and a fact for which I am very grateful. However, at least ninety percent of the pleasure derived has come from interactions with students as opposed to interactions with staff. My opportunity to observe educators is a unique one as I work with them during the week and teach a class to masters' level teachers on the weekend. This total...