Our colleagues downstairs on the WNYZ Newsroom have been hard at work on season two of their award-winning series,

the United States of Anxiety, Culture Wars.

You should probably subscribe on iTunes or wherever you listen so you don't miss a single episode.

But in the meantime, here's one we think you'll really like.

It's episode three, and it's called America's Allergy to Intellect, why it keeps flaring up.

Oh, there will always be those who scoff at intellectuals.

Sneering at intellectuals.

It's part of a conflict that's as old as our culture.

Who cry out against research, who seek to limit our educational system.

That was President John F. Kennedy, giving a speech at Vanderbilt University.

A few years later, producer and writer Norman Lear introduced the character of Archie Bunker.

This resident of Queens rebutted the high-flown Kennedy S.

Sinemants of a new generation.

He's staying on at school?

Yup, for another year.

You're staying on at school.

You think with your mind closed, and you eat with your mouth open.

You know you are totally incomprehensible?

Maybe so, but I make a lot of sense.

On this episode of the United States of Anxiety, Culture Wars,

we are going to explore the age-old American dispute over intellect.

What is it worth?

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