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The Anti-intellectual Presidency
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The Anti-Intellectual Presidency
Elvin T. Lim
Nuffield College, University of Oxford
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Prepared for delivery at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28 – August 31, 2003. Copyright by the American Political Science Association.
Key Words: Anti-intellectualism, Presidency, Political Rhetoric, Flesch Readability, Tyranny of Small Decisions Abstract: This essay charts and examines presidential anti-intellectualism in its public dimension. It presents textual evidence to demonstrate the existence and intensification of “dumbing down” throughout presidential history; traces the mildly anti-intellectual aversion to “rhetoric” and the decisions to simplify presidential discourse through presidential and speechwriting decisions made from the Truman through to the present administration; and explains how these individual decisions to go anti-intellectual accumulate and collectively present a serious but intractable threat to the health of the republic, instantiating a classic case of the tyranny of small decisions.
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The Anti-Intellectual Presidency
Elvin T. Lim
Nuffield College, University of Oxford
elvin.## email not listed ##
Prepared for delivery at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, August 28 – August 31, 2003. Copyright by the American Political
Science Association.
Key Words: Anti-intellectualism, Presidency, Political Rhetoric, Flesch Readability,
Tyranny of Small Decisions
Abstract: This essay charts and examines presidential anti-intellectualism in its public
dimension. It presents textual evidence to demonstrate the existence and intensification
of “dumbing down” throughout presidential history; traces the mildly anti-intellectual
aversion to “rhetoric” and the decisions to simplify presidential discourse through
presidential and speechwriting decisions made from the Truman through to the present
administration; and explains how these individual decisions to go anti-intellectual
accumulate and collectively present a serious but intractable threat to the health of the
republic, instantiating a classic case of the tyranny of small decisions.
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