Hand-wringing About American Culture — Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? — New York Times

Hand-wringing About American Culture — Are Amer­icans Hostile to Knowledge? — New York Times

A popular video on YouTube shows Kellie Pickler, the adorable platinum blonde from “American Idol,” appearing on the Fox game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5^th Grader?” during celebrity week. Selected from a third-grade geog­raphy curriculum, the $25,000 question asked: “Budapest is the capital of what European country?”