Today's media is addicted to contrarian takes on everything. And those takes are almost always just attention-grabbing clickbait.

Writers constantly tell us about mavericks whose genius overturned the status quo. Their stories aren't just wrong, they're dangerous.

We often think anti-intellectualism and ignorance are the same thing. They're not. Anti-intellectualism is a lot eviler and more corrosive, and a lot more dangerous.