The End of Ideas in American Politics? Americans today have relinquished even the pretense of thought and have come to resent the life of the mind. They are content to accept slogans that ridicule ideas, and they extol intellectual vulgarity because they confuse it with exuberance and strength… (click the link below to view the full essay by Mark Malvasi)

Source: The End of Ideas in American Politics? – The Imaginative Conservative