Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword-America: Are We Losing Our Mind? -- Introduction-The Knowledge Requirement: What Every American Needs to Know -- Part One-States of Mind: Indicators of Intellectual and Cognitive Decline -- 1. The Troubling Trend of Cultural IQ -- 2. Biblical Literacy Matters -- 3. Why Johnny and Joanie Can't Write, Revisited -- 4. College Graduates: Satisfied, but Adrift -- 5. Anatomy of an Epidemic -- Part Two-Personal and Cognitive Habits/Interests -- 6. A Wired Nation Tunes Out the News -- 7. Catching Our Eye: The Alluring Fallacy of Knowing at a Glance -- 8. The Rise of the Self and the Decline of Intellectual and Civic Interest -- 9. Has Internet-Fueled Conspiracy-Mongering Crested? -- Part Three-National Consequences -- 10. Dependency in America: American Exceptionalism and the Entitlement State -- 11. Political Ignorance in America -- 12. In Defense of Difficulty: How the Decline of the Ideal of Seriousness Has Dulled Democracy in the Name of a Phony Populism -- 13. We Live in the Age of Feelings -- 14. How Colleges Create the "Expectation of Confirmation" -- 15. The New Antinomian Attitude -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.

In THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN MIND, editors Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow have assembled an all-star lineup of celebrated critics, intellectuals, academics, journalist, and social scientists who all agree that something in the American mind has gone awry. They each focus on specific problems from biblical illiteracy to political ignorance to the inherent narcissism of the internet age, but together they paint a disturbing portrait of an America in which the welfare of individuals, the economy, and the political health of the nation is at risk.

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