{"id":5983,"date":"2017-04-13T19:11:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T23:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5983"},"modified":"2017-04-13T19:11:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T23:11:19","slug":"americas-anti-intellectualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5983","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s anti-intellectualism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all these years warning of the insane beliefs and malign effects of the Evangelical Right, it&#8217;s nice to see this piece in the <i>New York Times<\/i>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/13\/opinion\/sunday\/the-evangelical-roots-of-our-post-truth-society.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Evangelical Roots of our Post-truth Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/post-truth-society.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I earned the first of two engineering degrees in the year before Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority; my career has, literally, been coincident with the growth of the Evangelical Right and its relentless assault on science, reason, expertise.<\/p>\n<p>If you think I exaggerate about the harm these morons have done, or the malice they bear toward people who are better educated and more capable than themselves, remember this: They enthusiastically voted for a real-estate buffoon who claimed to know more about ISIS than the generals who had spent years fighting ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very fine piece, and y&#8217;all should go read the entire thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all these years warning of the insane beliefs and malign effects of the Evangelical Right, it&#8217;s nice to see this piece in the New York Times: The Evangelical Roots of our Post-truth Society. I earned the first of two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5983\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5985,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions\/5985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}