Susan Jacoby

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Susan Jacoby (day/month/1945)

Jacoby was born in _____, the daughter of (occupation, mother) and (occupation, father).

In 1965, she graduated from Michigan State University.

In _____, her career started as a writer and she was a reporter for The Washington Post, later writing articles for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect, Mother Jones, The Nation, and Glamour.

Her most recent, The Age of American Unreason, accuses the mass media, pseudoscientists, and the recent strength of religious fundamentalism of leading an anti-intellectualism that is destructively dumbing down Americans' education and leading to an unfortunate period of anti-rationalism.

Books

Moscow Conversations (1972)

The Friendship Barrier: Ten Russian Encounters (1972)

Inside Soviet Schools (1974)

The Possible She (1979)

Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge (1983)

Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family, 1865-1992 (1992, with Yelena Khanga)

Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past (2000)

Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004)

The Age of American Unreason (2008)

Jacoby is program director of the Center for Inquiry (CFI) in New York City, where she currently lives.

Patricia Cohen has written an interview with Jacoby in The New York Times (14 February 2008).