{"id":19046,"date":"2026-03-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/22\/we-are-living-in-a-period-of-political-anti-intellectualism-but-in-pop-culture-clever-is-the-new-cool-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:00:00","slug":"we-are-living-in-a-period-of-political-anti-intellectualism-but-in-pop-culture-clever-is-the-new-cool-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/22\/we-are-living-in-a-period-of-political-anti-intellectualism-but-in-pop-culture-clever-is-the-new-cool-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"We are living in a period of political anti-intellectualism. But in pop culture, clever is the new cool &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivAFBVV95cUxQX3N4QTFKLTlrY0ZsLVh5MlRwUS1MSVdIbWtqbGpwMDRuMXg4TkwwMDhBNzB2RGUzRjB2OGROVG80MXdaTGhDRS1XQ1FYM3hMSFR2b3RCOWQtXzdGVVlES1h5NjkwODM4N21zekNORFlkU0pWWWVjS2Q3MDhZNzlKcWZFb0NhY25tclhGN1pfTHZacDc5Qm45Tk9vZkFYWFJMTmRpaWNudEZ0RWNONHBrcGRrMnI4aDJMaXhGMw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">We are living in a period of political anti-intellectualism. But in pop culture, clever is the new cool<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Guardian<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are living in a period of political anti-intellectualism. But in pop culture, clever is the new cool&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}