Idiot America : How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free (Paperback)

from GAVAlady

This is a book that appeals to a certain segment of the American public, while others will find it very offensive. I am among the former. I have argued many of the points he takes in his book with my friends, family, colleagues, and anyone who will listen (even if they do roll their eyes). We no ...

from slothman

Charles Pierce is a great admirer of the American tradition of cranks: people with wild and wacky theories that challenge the status quo, whose notions are tested against reality and are either break current understanding or are broken by it. (For example, my mother grew up in an era when tectoni...

from MiaCulpa

I'm sure that when "Idiot America" was released in 2009, its thesis on the dumbing down of America, particularly in combination with the presidency of George W. Bush, no doubt saw it integrating with the zeitgeist. However, reading "Idiot America" in 2017 just makes you nostalgic for Bush. From t...

from Schmerguls

This is a sprightly book showing the idiocy of right-wing forces in the U.S. It is frequently humorous altho the truth of what he says is frightening when one considers that so many apparently believe the idiocy which the author so clearly points out. Anyone other than the ideologically far right...

from kaitanya64

Pierce is concerned with the growing contempt for knowledge in our culture, which he feels has wide relevance for our political, economic and social future. The material he covers will seem fairly self-evident to many i.e., the equating of religious belief with scientific theory, the growth in in...