Emancipations Podcast

Anti-Intellectualism in America (feat. C. Derick Varn)

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We discuss the roots of anti-intellectualism in American life for the first episode in a four-part series co-created and presented with C. Derick Varn, "The Problem of Intellectuals."

Learn more about C. Derick Varn by checking out his show "VarnVlog" https://www.patreon.com/c/varnvlog/posts 

These are the primary readings we discuss: 

  • Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
  • The American Intellectual Elite by Charles Kadushin 
  • The New Radicalism in America: The Intellectual as Social Type by Christopher Lasch
  • The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class by Alvin Gouldner
  • "The Missing Generation: Academics and the Communist Party from the Depression to the Cold War" by Ellen Schrecker 

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