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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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Anti-intellectualism, Presidency, Political Rhetoric, Flesch Readability, Tyranny of Small Decisions |
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Name: American Political Science Association
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| Lim, Elvin. "The Anti-intellectual Presidency" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64732_index.html> |
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| Lim, E. , 2003-08-27 "The Anti-intellectual Presidency" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64732_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
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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.lim@yale.edu 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; |
| now modeled and demonstrated the cumulative impacts of these decisions to repeat what I had merely asserted in my definitional account of anti-intellectualism: the most potent forms of anti-intellectualism do not conspicuously attack the intellect or the intellectual but operate insidiously against defenseless piñatas and alongside icons of universal appeal. Anti-intellectualism has been so quietly incorporated into the fabric of presidential politics that we no longer see it for what it is. Recognizing that small and apparently insignificant decisions |
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