--- title: Steven Nadler | TIME description: Nadler, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, is a professor of philosophy and the humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the coauthor of Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy. canonical: https://time.com/author/steven-nadler/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/steven-nadler/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Steven Nadler ## Steven Nadler _Nadler, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, is a professor of philosophy and the humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the coauthor of_ [Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691168695/?tag=timecom-20)_._ ## Steven Nadler *  Sep 12, 2017 ### [How to Fix American Stupidity](https://time.com/4937675/how-to-fix-american-stupidity/) A kind of intellectual stubbornness has taken the country by storm [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/steven-nadler/","name":"Steven Nadler"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/steven-nadler/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/steven-nadler/"},"name":"Steven Nadler","jobTitle":null,"description":"Nadler, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, is a professor of philosophy and the humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the coauthor of Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy.","url":"https://time.com/author/steven-nadler/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```