Book: The Age of American Unreason
Read this New York Times article about the book, The Age of American Unreason, but purchase it at Amazon.com through this link. (No extra charge to you, SCUP gets a 5 percent fee.)
But now, Ms. Jacoby said, something different is happening: anti-intellectualism (the attitude that "too much learning can be a dangerous thing'" and anti-rationalism ("the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion") have fused in a particularly insidious way. Not only are citizens ignorant about essential scientific, civic and cultural knowledge, she said, but they also don't think it matters.
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