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.
Labels: book, global, International, learning
posted by Terry Calhoun at
9:50 AM
1 Comments:
This sounds like the kind of attitude that the current administration in Washington has been pushing, one designed to pander to the lowest common denominator in the electorate. What we need is a change of national direction, and real LEADERSHIP. I hope that's clear to all of us, in both red and blue states, by now.
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