Hosted By::
Center for Inquiry Michigan
When:
Wednesday Mar 12, 2008
at 7:00 PM
Where::
Women’s City Club - Lower Meeting Room
254 E. Fulton Street
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
"A mutant strain of public ignorance, anti-rationalism, and anti-intellectualism has developed over the past four decades and now threatens the future of American democracy…Throughout our culture [a] disdain for logic and evidence has been fostered by the infotainment media…; aggressive anti-rational religious fundamentalism; poor public education; the intense politicization of intellectuals themselves; and—above all—a lazy and credulous public increasingly unwilling or unable to distinguish between fact and opinion.”
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a culture at odds with America’s heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern knowledge and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby offers an unsparing indictment of the ways in which dumbness has been defined downward throughout American society—on the political right and the left.
Join us for this highly relevant and engaging presentation with author Susan Jacoby.
This event is open to the public. $6 Suggested Donation or Free for Friends of the Center.
Visit www.cfimichigan.org for full details.
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