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Isaac Asimov Laments the "Cult of Ignorance" in the United States (1980) | Open Culture

Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons In 1980, scientist and writer Isaac Asimov argued in an essay that 'there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.' That year, the Republican Party stood at the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, which initiated a decades-long conservative groundswell.