"Stupidity" Blogs & Blog Posts

The idiocy of right-wingers never seems to have a limit. Now a Florida school board wants to censor Shakespeare. Drew Lichtenberg (lecturer at Yale University and dramaturg at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C.) responds to this stup...

The following post is by Michael A. Cohen at MSNBC.com:For those who have closely followed the political rise of Donald Trump, it’s rather obvious that the former president isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. This is a man, after all, who o...

The following is part of an op-ed by Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post:If the allegations in the latest indictment of Donald Trump hold up, the former president is a common criminal — and an uncommonly stupid one.Everyone knows, as the W...

The following is some of an excellent op-ed by Paul Krugman in The New York Times:Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a crank. His views are a mishmash of right-wing fantasies mixed with remnants of the progressive he once was: Bitcoin boosterism, anti-vac...

Marjorie Taylor Greene put her incredible stupidity on display recently. Here's what Steve Benen had to say about it at MSNBC.com:After Donald Trump indicated that his indictment was imminent, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said the former pre...

Tallahassee Classical School principal Hope Carrasquilla was fired after parents complained that their sixth graders were "upset" after being shown "pornographic" art: Michalangelo's sculpture of "David," a 16th century Renaissance masterpiece. Accor...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer knew more than you or I are likely to ever know about about the line between stupidity and outright evil. The Lutheran pastor and theologian had a front row seat as he watched the Nazis—history’s evilest stupid people (or st...