Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
Posted in Allan Bloom, American Idol, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, Eric G. Wilson, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kellie Pickler, Lee Siegel, National Geographic poll, Pearl Harbor, Raritan, Richard Hofstadter, Saudi Arabia, Susan Jacoby, T.J.Jackson Lears, The Age of American Unreason, Vietnam, YouTube, global warming, infortainment, stupid on February 17, 2008 | No Comments »
(NYT) - A popular video on YouTube shows Kellie Pickler, the adorable platinum blonde from “American Idol,” appearing on the Fox game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” during celebrity week. Selected from a third-grade geography curriculum, the $25,000 question asked: “Budapest is the capital of what European [...]
