Susan Jacoby - The Age of American Unreason (2008)

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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.

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If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that mathematicians however say that two plus two still equals four.

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At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

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