In 1961, Richard Hofstadter published Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.
I think that the US as a society has dwindled into this little bubble of anti-knowledge haters, to put it in urban dictionary terms. This recent societal editorial below is a nice read.
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/mar/20/age-of-ignorance/
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