3 Quotes & Sayings By Susan Jacoby

Susan Jacoby is a writer and journalist who lives in New York City. She is the author of four books: The Age of American Unreason: How the Christian Right Threatens our Freedom, Our Faith, and Our Future (Penguin); Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (Knopf), The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and His Times (Norton), and The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and His Times (Norton). She has also written two series on religion for the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

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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
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High culture can never be obliterated as long as the species continues to produce individuals with the inclination and fortitude to pursue their interests and talents against the grain of the mass culture surrounding them. Susan Jacoby