{"id":703,"date":"2008-06-29T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2008-06-29T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T13:27:08","slug":"anti-intellectual-punditry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Anti-intellectual punditry"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Broder<\/a> seems surprised–and informed–by the claim of a recent book (Elvin T. Lim's, The Anti-Intellectual Presidency<\/em><\/a>) that there is a notable absence of "logical argument" in presidential politics.  He writes:<\/p>\n

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In a slim book titled "The Anti-Intellectual Presidency," [Lim] argues that the real problem is not the increased quantity of words coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. but the sharp decline in content — especially of logical argument.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While I'm not surprised that Broder is surprised (Bush is staged for a comeback!<\/a>), it's a disappointing reminder of rather low quality of critical thought in the political press (compared in one recent and blistering article<\/a> to the courtiers of Versailles).  In an ideal world, Lim's thesis would be the job description of the pundit class and the everyday content of the op-ed page.  But no. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Broder seems surprised–and informed–by the claim of a recent book (Elvin T. Lim's, The Anti-Intellectual Presidency) that there is a notable absence of "logical argument" in presidential politics.  He writes: In a slim book titled "The Anti-Intellectual Presidency," [Lim] argues that the real problem is not the increased quantity of words coming out of … Continue reading Anti-intellectual punditry<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[1987,206,208,207],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-broder","tag-david-broder","tag-elvin-tlim","tag-logical-argument","tag-the-anti-intellectual-presidency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}