Idiot America
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
by Charles P. Pierce
-Reviewed by Monica Barra
When fringe opinions are louder than reasonable ones, and seem ready to overwhelm Americans’ ability to understand what’s happening in the world, consider it a cost of free speech.
Charles Pierce makes precisely this case in his Idiot America, exploring with a keen eye and sense of humor how to understand and cope with the effect extremism has on society. Pierce offers a part historical, part elaborately critical take on idiocy in …
