America’s peril: The rot of anti-intellectualism and demagoguery is costing us our future

Uncommon Sense Woes: The Cost of Anti-Intellectualism | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties

As a kid, my favorite part of grocery shopping wasn’t the snacks or the cereal aisle; it was the tabloids at the checkout.  I’d devour headlines about Batboy sightings, Bigfoot vacations, royal scandals and the occasional presidential summit with extraterrestrials. These were absurdities printed with a straight face, and the comedy was half the fun. I didn’t expect that, decades later, those supermarket fever dreams would feel less like parody a…

America’s peril: The rot of anti-intellectualism and demagoguery is costing us our future

As a kid, my favorite part of grocery shopping wasn’t the snacks or the cereal aisle, it was the tabloids at the checkout. I’d devour headlines about Batboy sightings, Bigfoot vacations, royal scandals and the occasional presidential summit with extraterrestrials.…