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• n  a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
• s  smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values

• George Bush is famously anti-intellectual.
• In a scathing 1984 review of Algeny, one of Rifkin's nine books, Harvard's Stephen Jay Gould wrote that it was "a cleverly constructed tract of anti-intellectual propaganda .
• True, he was merciless in describing the anti-intellectual streak that led many mainstream arbiters to put quotes around the term evangelical scholarship.

• philistine
• lowbrow

News & Articles

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  Conservatism, RIP? Please login to view the requested resource. Here’s a quote for you: Conservatism is “anti-intellectual, insensitive to questions of civil liberties, hostile to reforms, more concerned with using political processes for social protest than...
  June 25, 2013 - The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record

Quotes

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• William Crowe in TIME
  I considered quitting right then,Crowe said later. "There has historically been a very strong anti-intellectual bias in the Navy."
• Susan Jacoby in Los Angeles Times
  During the past four decades,Jacoby writes, "America's endemic anti-intellectual tendencies have been grievously exacerbated by a new species of semiconscious anti-rationalism, feeding on and fed by an ignorant popular culture of video...
• Isaac Asimov in Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
  New York Times wine writer Eric Asimov called it "another anti-intellectual effort to take fancy-schmancy wine down a peg or two."