“We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. It is held in reverence. Some think it the… — Kurt Andersen Feeling Copy Share Image
The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition. — Kurt Andersen Become Copy Share Image
“The disagreements dividing Protestants from Catholics were about the internal consistency of the magical rules within their common fantasy scheme.” — Kurt Andersen Consistency Copy Share Image
“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” — Kurt Andersen Entitled Copy Share Image
“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press,” — Kurt Andersen Gunpowder Copy Share Image
I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up. — Kurt Andersen Actually Copy Share Image
“When somebody asked Alexander Hamilton why the Framers hadn’t mentioned God in the Constitution, his answer was deadpan hilarious: “We forgot.” — Kurt Andersen Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular. — Kurt Andersen 21st century Copy Share Image
“the stories of the supremely successful entrepreneurs obscure the forgotten millions of losers and nincompoops. The fabulous successes seem like proof of… — Kurt Andersen Business Copy Share Image
“For Northerners, victory had confirmed they were on God’s side, fortifying their besetting smugness, and their religion resolved more and more into… — Kurt Andersen Religion Copy Share Image
“Each side was sincerely convinced that it was carrying out God’s orders. In the North and the South, soldiers and ministers and… — Kurt Andersen War Copy Share Image
“In 1848 the Homeopathic Medical College was founded in Philadelphia, eventually becoming the Drexel University College of Medicine. Homeopathic M.D. degrees were… — Kurt Andersen Doctor Copy Share Image
“mix epic individualism with extreme religion; mix show business with everything else; let all that steep and simmer for a few centuries;… — Kurt Andersen Business Copy Share Image
I am proud to be American. We wouldn't have our big dreams without this quality, but if we can't agree on the… — Kurt Andersen Agree Copy Share Image
“The new king of the Protestant Establishment, featured on the cover of Time, was Reinhold Niebuhr, a New Yorker and bona-fide intellectual… — Kurt Andersen Eternal life Copy Share Image
“The antisharia movement lobbied states to pass statutes and constitutional amendments banning the use of sharia in their courts and legal systems,… — Kurt Andersen Israel Copy Share Image
“One of the patients at Kellogg’s Seventh-day Adventist sanitarium was C. W. Post, who got the idea there for Grape Nuts, which… — Kurt Andersen Health benefits Copy Share Image
“Since the turn of the century, American fundamentalists had reveled in their sense of persecution by an infidel elite, but in the… — Kurt Andersen Fundamentalists Copy Share Image
“Why did the grown-ups and designated drivers on the left manage to remain more or less in charge of their followers, while… — Kurt Andersen Christianity Copy Share Image
“Sixteen hundred years ago Saint Augustine instructed, basically, Don’t be stupid. “Shall we say, then,” he wrote about Genesis, “there was such… — Kurt Andersen Creation Copy Share Image
“EVEN PAUL GOODMAN, beloved by young leftists in the 1960s, was flabbergasted by his students in 1969. “There was no knowledge,” he… — Kurt Andersen Education Copy Share Image
“The Republican position is now to oppose even studying climate change as well as any and all proposals to reduce carbon emissions.… — Kurt Andersen Carbon emissions Copy Share Image
I'm comparing Americans to international peers in terms of GDP, educational system - the sort of benchmarks we used to designate a… — Kurt Andersen Americans Copy Share Image
“The Beats’ self-conception descended from a particular American lineage—mountain men, outlaws, frontier cranks, lonely individualists, and narcissistic outsiders sounding their barbaric yawps… — Kurt Andersen Lineage Copy Share Image
“Whether an individual’s conspiracism exists alongside religious faith, psychologically they’re similar: a conspiracy theory can be revised and refined and further confirmed,… — Kurt Andersen Around the corner Copy Share Image
“A kind of unspoken grand bargain was forged between the anti-Establishment and the Establishment. Going forward, individuals would be permitted as never… — Kurt Andersen Capitalists Copy Share Image
“Conservatives are correct in pointing out that the anything-goes relativism of the campuses wasn’t sequestered there, but when it flowed out across… — Kurt Andersen Change Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism used to have a robust left wing as well. Both disliked government. Both were driven by a fantastically nostalgic conviction that… — Kurt Andersen Left wing Copy Share Image
“And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the… — Kurt Andersen Psychology Copy Share Image
“major argument of this book is that Americans are not just exceptionally religious but that our dominant religion has become exceptionally literal… — Kurt Andersen Books Copy Share Image
“Extreme religious and quasi-religious beliefs and practices, Christian and New Age and otherwise, didn’t subside but grew and thrived—and came to seem… — Kurt Andersen Faith Copy Share Image
“IN ADDITION TO having become a distinctly Christian party, the GOP is more than ever America’s self-consciously white party. The nationalization of… — Kurt Andersen Affirmative action Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism used to have a robust left wing as well. Both disliked government. Both were driven by a fantastically nostalgic conviction that… — Kurt Andersen Left wing Copy Share Image
“Unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” —PHILIP K. DICK” — Kurt Andersen Realities Copy Share Image
“But what other place on Earth has been more congenial to believers and promoters of mad dreams and schemes of so many… — Kurt Andersen America Copy Share Image
“If I think it’s true, no matter why or how I think it’s true, then it’s true, and nobody can tell me… — Kurt Andersen True Copy Share Image
If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones… — Kurt Andersen Abandon Copy Share Image
“J.R.R. Tolkien, had it right in the lecture he gave just after he published The Hobbit. “Fantasy,” he said in 1939, talking… — Kurt Andersen Fantasy Copy Share Image
“As we let a hundred dogmatic iterations of reality bloom, the eventual result was an anything-goes relativism that extends beyond religion to… — Kurt Andersen Faith Copy Share Image
“The early advocates of universal literacy and a free press…did not foresee…the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the… — Kurt Andersen Brave new world Copy Share Image
