This pamphlet partly explains why I’ve admired Jim Chandler’s life and work for more than 50 years. The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning is a cool, lucid exposure of the current upsurge of American Know- Nothingism — Trumpism and MAGA —'to undermine and even eradicate' what he has spent his life enriching: 'a sound curriculum in liberal education.'

[Chandler’s] pamphlet brilliantly probes some essential, and still perplexing, features of MAGA politics.

If the insight that Trump is good at television is well worn, James Chandler refreshes and sharpens that insight by tracing Trump's mastery of the medium to his love and knowledge of the particular genre of television that is kayfabe wrestling