Ignoring the Cost of Anti-Intellectualism
The unbearably high price of right-wing ideology
Last week, an infant in Kentucky died of Pertussis, a condition commonly known as whooping cough. If the common term sounds a bit old-timey, that’s because it is. The first recorded cases date back all the way to the 16th century. But when a vaccine became available in the 1940s, deaths from pertussis became rare soon after. Once again, our ability to a…
