Curated category
Anti-intellectualism
- Khmer RougeIn 1949, a young man named Saloth Sar boarded a train in Phnom Penh bound for Paris. He carried no degree yet, only a ticket and a growing conviction that…
- CensorshipA plaster cast of David sits in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Beside it rests a detachable fig leaf made of the same material.
- TalibanIn 1994, a group of Pashtun students emerged from religious schools in Kandahar to end the chaos of Afghanistan's civil war.
- LysenkoismIn 1923, Ivan Pavlov announced that conditioned reflexes could be inherited in mice. Soviet ideologists ignored his later withdrawal of this claim and used…