Susan Jacoby
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Susan Jacoby (born 1945) is an American author, most recently of the New York Times best seller The Age of American Unreason about American anti-intellectualism. She is director of the New York branch of the Center for Inquiry.
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The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby avg rating 3.71 — 536 ratings — published 2008 10 editions |
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby avg rating 4.09 — 239 ratings — published 2004 2 editions |
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Alger Hiss and the Battle for History by Susan Jacoby avg rating 2.90 — 10 ratings — published 2009 |
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Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search For Her Family's Buried Past by Susan Jacoby avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 2000 |
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The Possible She by Susan Jacoby avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1979 2 editions |
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Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge by Susan Jacoby avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1983 3 editions |
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The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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Age of American Unreason, The - on Playaway by Susan Jacoby, Cassandra Campbell avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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Friendship Barrier by Susan Jacoby avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1972 |
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Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? by Susan Jacoby avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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"The specific use of folks as an exclusionary and inclusionary signal, designed to make the speaker sound like one of the boys or girls, is symptomatic of a debasement of public speech inseperable from a more general erosion of American cultural standards. Casual, colloquial language also conveys an implicit denial of the seriousness of whatever issue is being debated: talking about folks going off to war is the equivalent of describing rape victims as girls (unless the victims are, in fact, little girls and not grown women). Look up any important presidential speech in the history of the United States before 1980, and you will find not one patronizing appeal to folks. Imagine: 'We here highly resolve that these folks shall not have died in vain; and that government of the folks, by the folks, for the folks, shall not perish from the earth.'"
— Susan Jacoby (The Age of American Unreason)
— Susan Jacoby (The Age of American Unreason)
""This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism." "
— Susan Jacoby
— Susan Jacoby
"That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain."
— Susan Jacoby (Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism)
— Susan Jacoby (Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism)
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