American culture Quote by Thomas M. Nichols

““The issue is not indifference to established knowledge; it’s the emergence of a positive hostility to such knowledge. This is new in American culture, and it represents the aggressive replacement of expert views or established knowledge with the insistence that every opinion on any matter is as good as every other. This is a remarkable change in our public discourse. This””

Thomas M. Nichols

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings)

American culture Knowledge

More by Thomas M. Nichols

“Conspiracy theorists manipulate all tangible evidence to fit their explanation, but worse, they will also point to the absence of evidence as even stronger…

Thomas M. Nichols

Image

“Today, by contrast, students explode over imagined slights that are not even remotely in the same category as fighting for civil rights or being…

Thomas M. Nichols

Image

“And when voters lose control of these important decisions, they risk the hijacking of their democracy by ignorant demagogues, or the more quiet and…

Thomas M. Nichols

Image

“As the economic writer Ben Casselman pointed out in 2016, most college applicants “never have to write a college entrance essay, pad a résumé…

Thomas M. Nichols

Image

“People do not come to the Internet so that their bad information can be corrected or their cherished theories disproven. Rather, they ask the…

Thomas M. Nichols

Image

“If the public has no idea about the substance of an issue, and will vote based on who they like rather than what they…

Thomas M. Nichols

Image

“At the root of all this is an inability among laypeople to understand that experts being wrong on occasion about certain issues is not…

Thomas M. Nichols

Image

“The requirements of a degree in a STEM field (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), a demanding foreign language, or a rigorous degree in the humanities…

Thomas M. Nichols

Image

“In 2015, a Massachusetts accountant named Stephen Pasceri lost his seventy-eight-year-old mother to cardiovascular disease. Mrs. Pasceri had a long history of health trouble,…

Thomas M. Nichols

Image

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread…

Thomas M. Nichols

Image

“The modern media, with so many options tailored to particular views, is a huge exercise in confirmation bias. This means that Americans are not…

Thomas M. Nichols

Image

“Americans no longer distinguish the phrase “you’re wrong” from the phrase “you’re stupid.” To disagree is to disrespect. To correct another is to insult.…

Thomas M. Nichols

Image

Explore all 76 Thomas M. Nichols quotes

More American culture quotes

“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,…

Oliver Markus Malloy

Image

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French…

Tyler Cowen

Image

“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of…

Bill Bryson

Image

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a…

Salman Rushdie

Image

[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture…

Mario Batali

Image

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

John Hodgman

Image

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form…

Rafael Vinoly

Image

And certainly in British culture, as I'm sure it's the same with American culture, we warm to cultures where people can make fun of…

Omid Djalili

Image

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

Anonymous