The Gold Standard 

The following is a non-Forbes post, here exclusively:

Last week on one of the better-read econ blogs, Scott Sumner’s Money Illusion, a post bore this title: “Have conservatives always been this anti-intellectual?” That’s a fifty-cent word, “anti-intellectual,” and it’s not bandied around these days very much, even within rarefied air.

Readers expecting analysis as urbane as brought Richard Hofstadter the Pulitzer in 1964 for Anti-Intellectualism in American Life were left disappointed. Turns out it was a malapropism. Read more