Signature Books
The Age of American Unreason AI
Combing historical analysis with far-reaching contempoary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a modern America at odds with its heritage of Enlightenment reason and with 21st century knoweledge and science. With mordant wit, the author offers an unsparing indictment of the ways in which 'dumbness' and 'junk thought' have premeated throughout American society - both on the political right and left. Much of Jacoby's diagnosis of the ills of contemporary American culture is acutely relevant in the UK but she also presents a fascinating and persuasive account of the reasons why, uniquely among western democracies, Darwinian evolution remains controversial in the United States. The Age of American Unreason is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the most powerful country in the world.