American life Quote by Kurt Andersen

“Since the turn of the century, American fundamentalists had reveled in their sense of persecution by an infidel elite, but in the 1960s the…

— Kurt Andersen

“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 otherwise.”

— Kurt Andersen

“Libertarianism used to have a robust left wing as well. Both disliked government. Both were driven by a fantastically nostalgic conviction that a country…

— Kurt Andersen

“But what other place on Earth has been more congenial to believers and promoters of mad dreams and schemes of so many kinds? California…

— Kurt Andersen

“The antisharia movement lobbied states to pass statutes and constitutional amendments banning the use of sharia in their courts and legal systems, a fantasy…

— Kurt Andersen

I'm comparing Americans to international peers in terms of GDP, educational system - the sort of benchmarks we used to designate a so-called developed…

— Kurt Andersen

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

— Kurt Andersen

“The early advocates of universal literacy and a free press…did not foresee…the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither…

— Kurt Andersen

“EVEN PAUL GOODMAN, beloved by young leftists in the 1960s, was flabbergasted by his students in 1969. “There was no knowledge,” he wrote, “only…

— Kurt Andersen

“IN ADDITION TO having become a distinctly Christian party, the GOP is more than ever America’s self-consciously white party. The nationalization of its Southern…

— Kurt Andersen

“Sixteen hundred years ago Saint Augustine instructed, basically, Don’t be stupid. “Shall we say, then,” he wrote about Genesis, “there was such a sense…

— Kurt Andersen

“After more than three decades and many hundreds of studies, the overwhelming scientific consensus is that GMO foods are safe to eat. The National…

— Kurt Andersen