AlterNet: The Age of American Unreason: How Anti-Intellectualism Is Wrecking the Country

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http://www.alternet.org/story/95109/the_age_of_american_unreason:_how_anti-intellectualism_is_wrecking_the_country/

by Terrence McNally, AlterNet. Posted August 15, 2008.

Author Susan Jacoby explains how ignorance became popular and intelligence became a political liability. Our contempt for fact may spell our demise.

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Susan Jacoby confronts our "know-nothingism" -- current and historical -- in her new book, The Age of American Unreason.

A former reporter for the Washington Post and program director of the Center for Inquiry-New York City, Jacoby is the author of five books, including Wild Justice, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. Her political blog, The Secularist's Corner, is on the Web site of the Washington Post.

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Thought you might enjoy, if you hadn't read it already.

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