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Why are Europeans so untroubled by their ignorance of America?

9 April 2025

4:06 PM

9 April 2025

4:06 PM

Laramie, Wyoming

Americans are infamous on the eastern side of the Atlantic for knowing little or nothing about European culture, history and politics – and for being proud of the fact, as Richard Hofstadter, the late Columbia historian, described in them in Anti-intellectualism in American Life, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1964.

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