anti-intellectual

The recent wave of anti-intellectual and anti-science predisposition of radicals and fundamentalists is a major, and seemingly insurmountable, obstacle for scientific and intellectual growth.

When compared to the consolidation of the political and ideological right wing (and its anti-intellectual strain) in Pakistan since 1977, this reading of Indian politics and society served as a worthy source of emulation.

Instead of doing so, Cole strikes out in all directions: an anti-intellectual jibe at graduates, a sneer at the sartorial shortcomings of the young.

But they won't be won with anti-intellectual, anti-government, faux-populist messages that have drifted down from the past.

The first cause for worry is that the onslaught against the arts scholars is only the most obvious front of the anti-intellectual war against the academy.

David Grinspoon attributes the 1990s cut in funding for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence to "anti-intellectual budget cutters" (S&T: July 2018, p.

For the university was not even suggesting that the rustication could have come from some wrong workings or applications of rules, but was insistent that the normal running of the institution would produce such an anti-intellectual end.

Anti-Intellectual Property Crime Office chief Mat Yousu said the milk products were imported illegally from Thailand, breaking an exclusive distribution deal.

'Fahrenheit 451's' tech-heavy, antiliteracy dystopia revels in the revision of history, supplanting truth with wrong details, known in our time as 'alternative facts' or even 'symbolism.' Disinformation and a concerted anti-intellectual movement have led to a more docile, subjugated citizenry-it's frighteningly relevant, mirroring real tactics in an increasingly topsy-turvy world.

President Donald Trump, often described as anti-intellectual, nailed it when he recently declared he would make his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a "worldwide success." The summit is expected in late May or early June.

In that vein, she gave us the ridiculous doctors, Phil an Oz, propagated the anti/vaccine nonsense by giving Jenny McCarthy a voice, and acted as though she invented reading with her anti-intellectual book club.