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9/12/2021
Scammed From the Beginning: Rejecting Expertise as an American Value
by Guy Lancaster
When Americans demand and take unauthorized medications to treat COVID-19, they aren't indulging a new conspiratorialism but are tapping into currents of American cultural and religious history that have always rejected established authority.
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SOURCE: Duluth News Tribune
4/1/2020
Anti-Intellectualism is Killing Us
by Scott Laderman
For decades the Republican Party has railed against expertise, painting it as a conspiratorial assault on so-called “conservative” values and the millions of Americans who embrace them.
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1/5/18
Should Historians Be Pundits? An interview with Ibram X. Kendi, Nicole Hemmer and Michael Kazin
They appeared on a panel convened to discuss Moshik Temkin's controversial NYT op ed, "Historians Shouldn’t Be Pundits."
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