“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” — Kurt Andersen 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
“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 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
“Szasz opposed any involuntary psychiatric intervention and, along with the Cuckoo’s Nest portrayal, paved the way for the disastrous dismantling of U.S.… — Kurt Andersen Climate change 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
“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 Writing Copy Share Image
“The Middle Ages are generally reckoned to have ended at least a century before America’s founding. By the 1620s in the Old… — Kurt Andersen Bible 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“IN 1967 YOUNG Tom Stoppard had his breakthrough hit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a brilliant play about actors playing characters playing… — Kurt Andersen Fiction and reality Copy Share Image
“We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. It is held in reverence. Some think it the… — Kurt Andersen Voice of god Copy Share Image
“Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to God’s glory, success looks like a… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“If underground militant cells were setting off hundreds of bombs and robbing banks around the country these days, of course, America would… — Kurt Andersen Martial law 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
“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
“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 Every man Copy Share Image
“Why did Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan begin remarking frequently during the 1980s and ’90s that people were entitled to their own opinions… — Kurt Andersen Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
