Jack Anderson, a writer on dance for The New York Times for about five decades who combined a historian’s learnedness with an enthusiast’s ardor for what was new and surprising, died on Friday in Manhattan.

Trump’s appeal is an indictment of the public education system of America, and the American cultivation of an anti-intellectual culture suspicious of eloquence and learnedness.

Republican patron saint Ronald Reagan was incredibly ill-informed and even hostile toward learnedness, but he was an actor who could pull off inspiring speeches with a kind of paternal charm.

Ted Cruz reached for learnedness and never achieved it: as always, he looked nuts.

Immediately, because of his learnedness and accomplishments, he becomes a leader of the Franciscans.