Tag: Cult Of Ignorance

  • Asimov on the “cult of ignorance”

    Asimov on the “cult of ignorance”

    It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, ”America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?” None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a […]