Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Jones, Howard Mumford; Hofstadter, Richard

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“…The second pandemic is the mental one of anti‐intellectualism. It seems to be on the rise again, as it has in the past (e.g., Abelson, 1976; Hofstadter, 1963; Rigney, 1991). Within the Earth and space sciences, climate change denial has been an issue for decades (e.g., Lindzen, 1990; Singer, 1996), but it has lately spread to a disbelief in science and the scientific method (e.g., Lewandowsky & Oberauer, 2016; Merkley & Loewen, 2021).…”

Section: A Bold Futurementioning

confidence: 95%

Conducting Space Physics Research: Wind the Frog, Work Hard, and Be Nice

Liemohn

2023

Perspectives of Earth and Spac

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This report briefly summarizes the key mentors in my scientific career and some lessons learned from those influential people. My primary advice to others: it is okay to do something wrong. By doing science we are doing something hard that, by definition, has not been done before. I believe that impostor syndrome is a real threat to researcher wellbeing and we should acknowledge its presence and support each other to get through it. Regarding an approach to science, I encourage you to get started and make something bad. Also, take time for yourself, it really does help your productivity. To lead others, I recommend to be enthusiastic, actively listen, and make connections across disciplines. I think it is important to foster creativity in those around you. I advocate that you actively make the future that you want to have.

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Section: A Bold Futurementioning

confidence: 95%

Conducting Space Physics Research: Wind the Frog, Work Hard, and Be Nice

Liemohn

2023

Perspectives of Earth and Spac

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“…The place of the professor as a conspicuous figure in the United States is indelibly linked to what the late Richard Hofstadter analyzed as the “rise of the expert” in the late 19 th century. Hofstadter, in his 1963 Pulitzer Prize winning historical study, Anti‐Intellectualism in American Life , observed that the paradox of this visibility of scholarly “eggheads” was both a source of respect and resentment in public attitudes toward the academic profession (Hofstadter, 1963). This mixed, complex identity did not just happen.…”

Section: Professors and The Enigma Of Eggheads As Expertsmentioning

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Professors proceeding at their own risk: The limited protections of academic freedom for public intellectuals

Thelin

2022

New Drctns Hghr Edu

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This chapter explores whether academic freedom extends to the work of academic public intellectuals through a historical analysis of landmark cases and episodes. It leads to the sobering conclusion that “professors proceed at their own risk if and when they take on the role of a public intellectual,” noting that the presence of academic freedom as a binding policy in academic organizations or professional associations is marginal and faculty protections for statements in the media are arbitrary and uncertain.

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“…52 This caution toward liberal intellect had become a distinct feature of American life by the late nineteenth century. 53 Politicians who claimed to be 'noble' and 'unselfish' were often thought of as both detached from and unfit for the realities of everyday life. This was no less true for Wilson, whose intellect was consistently construed as 'soft' and 'effeminate'.…”

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Visions of Statesmanship Across The Atlantic: Presidential Masculinity and the American Response to Benito Mussolini

Verheul

2022

Gender & History

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This article explores how hegemonic masculinity forged discourses of modern statesmanship in the United States and Italy in the first three decades of the twentieth century. It unpacks the 'presidential masculinity' of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and compares these gendered performances of political leadership in the United States to Benito Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy during the 1920s. In doing so, this article contends that the manliness of these three modern leaders rested on a contrasting of pairs: if Roosevelt embodied the hegemonic ideal of the 'frontiersman-as-president', Wilson personified its 'unmanly', bourgeois-liberal countertype and thereby engendered the initially hospitable view of Mussolini's Fascist masculinity in the United States during the Jazz Age. The article covers the publications in The Atlantic Monthly to reveal how the American disillusion with Wilson's liberal internationalism transformed the Duce into a Fascist surrogate for Roosevelt. In a decade of political, economic and social upheaval, the transatlantic 'public relations state' in both the United States and Italy discursively positioned Mussolini as the personification of the masculine ideals of acumen, willpower and virility for the American public; a 'Doctor-Dictator' who, akin to Roosevelt, became a symbol of modern manliness that signified stability, progress and reform. In the process, the Duce's Fascist manhood shaped hegemonic ideals of statesmanship across the Atlantic while hinting at the paltry support for the liberal democracies of the West.'Do you know, your Excellency, what a great many Americans call you? They call you the Italian Roosevelt'. By this he was obviously gratified. 'For that', he said, 'I am very glad and proud. Roosevelt I greatly admired'. He clenched his fist. 'Roosevelt had strength -had the will to do what he thought should be done. He had greatness'. 1 If Cobb did not miss out on Mussolini's predictably Fascist understanding of Roosevelt's leadership, the distinctly masculinist subtext of the Duce's rhetoric went

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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Cited by 25 publications

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Conducting Space Physics Research: Wind the Frog, Work Hard, and Be Nice

Conducting Space Physics Research: Wind the Frog, Work Hard, and Be Nice

Professors proceeding at their own risk: The limited protections of academic freedom for public intellectuals

Visions of Statesmanship Across The Atlantic: Presidential Masculinity and the American Response to Benito Mussolini

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