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Susan Jacoby (1945-)
Susan Jacoby is an American author, most recently of the New York Times best seller, The Age of American Unreason about American anti-intellectualism. She is an atheist and secularist. Jacoby graduated from Michigan State University in 1965. She lives in New York City and is director of the New York branch of the Center for Inquiry.
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High culture can never be obliterated as long as the species continues to produce extraordinary individuals with the inclination and the fortitude to pursue their interests and talents against the grain of the mass culture surrounding them.
— The Age of American Unreason, p. 148
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If the grown-up Reagan neocons were stupid–if they did not have command of an intellectual vocabulary that makes wishful thinking sound rational–they would be less dangerous.
— The Age of American Unreason, p. 296
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