I think the UK is as, if not more, antiintellectual than the US. Even British philosophy is antiintellectual.
--- On Sat, 3/14/09, Peter Ward <nevadabob at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> From: Peter Ward <nevadabob at hotmail.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] more Americans deny reality
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 11:42 PM
> I personally think the "anti-intellectual" current
> he is healthy in many ways. If you look at European
> intellectuals (I studied humanities in the UK, incidentally)
> the most famous are monumental frauds and as hostile to
> science and reason as any religious fanatic (Cf.
> Intellectual Impostures/Fashionable Nonsense by Jean
> Birchmont and Alan Sokal). As a libertarian myself, I say
> question all claims of authority. In some cases they are
> justified in other not. But in the case of liberal
> intellectuals almost invariably not--find my a French
> intellectual taking responsibility for any of Europes
> present imperial crimes or the legalized persecution of
> Muslims, e.g.
>