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Culture
America's Cult of Ignorance
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More people are better educated than ever before, and knowledge is easier to come by. So why do we so often scorn those who plainly know more than we do?
Tom Nichols
Published
Apr. 1 2017
12:01AM EDT
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
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