“Since the turn of the century, American fundamentalists had reveled in their sense of persecution by an infidel elite, but in the… — Kurt Andersen Public schools 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 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
“But what other place on Earth has been more congenial to believers and promoters of mad dreams and schemes of so many… — Kurt Andersen Dreams 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 Zombie apocalypse 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 Believe 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 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
“EVEN PAUL GOODMAN, beloved by young leftists in the 1960s, was flabbergasted by his students in 1969. “There was no knowledge,” he… — Kurt Andersen Simple truth 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
“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 Years ago Copy Share Image
“After more than three decades and many hundreds of studies, the overwhelming scientific consensus is that GMO foods are safe to eat.… — Kurt Andersen Climate change Copy Share Image
“P. T. Barnum was the great early American merchandiser of exciting secular fantasies and half-truths. His extremely successful precircus career derived from… — Kurt Andersen 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“If men were ever in a state in which they did not want to know or could not perceive truth (facts or… — Kurt Andersen Truth 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
“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
“The problem is a real one, not a mere intellectual game. Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities… — Kurt Andersen Computers 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
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
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
“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
“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press,” — Kurt Andersen Printing press 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
