TY - BOOK AU - Bauerlein,Mark AU - Bellow,Adam TI - The state of the American mind: 16 leading critics on the new anti-intellectualism SN - 9781599474588 (hbk) AV - 002 E 169.12 S797 2015 U1 - 306.42 23 PY - 2015///] CY - West Conshohocken, PA PB - Templeton Press KW - National characteristics, American KW - United States KW - Intellectual life KW - 21st century KW - Social conditions KW - Estados Unidos KW - Características nacionales KW - Vida intelectual KW - Siglo XXI KW - Condiciones sociales N1 - Subtitle from cover; Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword--; America: Are we losing our mind?; Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow --; Introduction--; The knowledge requirement: what every American needs to know; E.D. Hirsch Jr. --; Part one--; States of mind: indicators of intellectual and cognitive decline; The troubling trend of cultural IQ; Marl Bauerlein --; Biblical literacy matters; Daniel L. Dreisbach --; Why Johnny and Joanie can't write, revisited; Gerald Graff --; College graduates: satisfies, but adrift; Richard Arum --; Anatomy of an epidemic; Robert Whitaker --; Part two--; Personal and cognitive habits/interests; A wired nation tunes out the news; David T.Z. Mindich --; Catching our eye : the alluring fallacy of knowing at a glance; Maggie Jackson --; The rise of the self and the decline of intellectual and civic interest; Jean M. Twenge --; Has internet-fueled conspiracy-mongering crested?; Jonathan Kay --; Part three--; National consequences; Dependency in America: American exceptionalism and the entitlement state; Nicholas Eberstadt --; Political ignorance in America; Ilya Somin --; In defense of difficulty: how the decline of the ideal of seriousness has dulled democracy in the name of phony populism; Steve Wasserman --; We live in the age of feelings; Dennis Prager --; How colleges create the "expectation of confirmation"; Greg Lukianoff --; The new antinomian attitude; R.R. Reno UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1605/2015487206-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1605/2015487206-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1605/2015487206-t.html ER -