MATT WELCH RESPONDS to claims that America is facing a tide of anti-intellectualism. Excerpt:

But I suspect that, to the contrary, Noam Chomsky’s never had a wider audience. It’s just that many of his new readers don’t agree with him, and aren’t shy about saying so, despite his “five decades” of comment compared to their five months. I would go as far as suggesting that what we are witnessing is a further democratization of political/intellectual debate, rather than some kind of grunting Cossack putsch.

Indeed. But I think that that may be what’s really bothering some people.