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The Ashikaga shoguns and their samurai were greatly attracted by an essentially anti-intellectual doctrine that transmitted its truth from master to disciple by practical example rather than scholarly study of texts.
In the Weekly Standard , Wallace biographer Stephan Lesher says the film reduces the governor's appeal to simple racism--a contention "every bit as anti-intellectual and demagogic as Wallace's own ...
It is telling, indeed, about the anti-intellectual nature of this book that the blurbs on the back do not come from intellectuals or scholars at all but from popular black personalities and partisans for causes.
Knowledge, in the instance of the definitive reference book, becomes entombed and sanctified, very much serving the anti-intellectual ends of the middlebrow, who want not to encounter knowledge and to wrestle with it but to store it as an authority on the bookshelf.
But the results, based on a survey of 10,000 adults, aren't quite so straightforwardly anti-intellectual.