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Susan Jacoby: Bonchek Lecture
LANCASTER, Pa. - Best-selling author Susan Jacoby will visit Franklin & Marshall College on Tuesday, Oct. 7 to deliver the annual Bonchek Lecture. The talk, titled "Say it Ain't So: Where Did America's Rationality Go?", will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Barshinger Center for Musical Arts. Jacoby's talk, which will be followed by a book signing, is free and open to the public.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Liberal Arts and Society, the Bonchek College House and the Bonchek Institute for Reason and Science in a Liberal Democracy.
The Bonchek Institute for Reason and Science in a Liberal Democracy seeks to foster an appreciation of the importance of reason, skepticism, and the scientific method in maintaining a liberal democracy--which means, briefly, one in which the individual's liberties are protected from a tyranny of the majority.
Jacoby, the author of The Age of American Unreason, will focus on the convergence of social forces--usually treated as separate entities--that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism.
The Age of American Unreason is Jacoby's eighth book. An independent scholar whose work now focuses on American intellectual history, she began her writing career as a reporter for The Washington Post.
Jacoby's Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004) was hailed in The New York Times as an "ardent and insightful work" that "seeks to rescue a proud tradition from the indifference of posterity." Named a notable nonfiction book of 2004 by The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, Freethinkers was cited in England as one of the outstanding international books of the year by the Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian. Freethinkers was featured in an interview on NOW with Bill Moyers.
The author's previous books include Moscow Conversations (1972), based on her experiences in Moscow from 1969 to 1971; Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge (Harper & Row), a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1984; and Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past (Scribner, 2000).
Jacoby has been a contributor to a wide range of periodicals and newspapers for more than 25 years, on topics including law, religion, medicine, aging, women's rights, political dissent in the Soviet Union, and Russian literature. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Book World, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Newsday, Harper's, The Nation, Vogue, The American Prospect, Mother Jones, and the AARP Magazine, among other publications. They have been reprinted in numerous anthologies of columns and magazine articles.
She is also program director of the Center for Inquiry-New York City, a rationalist think tank, and a regular panelist for On Faith, a Web site sponsored by The Washington Post and Newsweek. She also has her own political blog, The Secularist's Corner, on the Web site of The Washington Post.
Jacoby has been the recipient of many grants and awards, from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Ford Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2001-2002, she was named a fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Liberal Arts and Society, the Bonchek College House and the Bonchek Institute for Reason and Science in a Liberal Democracy.
The Bonchek Institute for Reason and Science in a Liberal Democracy seeks to foster an appreciation of the importance of reason, skepticism, and the scientific method in maintaining a liberal democracy--which means, briefly, one in which the individual's liberties are protected from a tyranny of the majority.
Jacoby, the author of The Age of American Unreason, will focus on the convergence of social forces--usually treated as separate entities--that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism.
The Age of American Unreason is Jacoby's eighth book. An independent scholar whose work now focuses on American intellectual history, she began her writing career as a reporter for The Washington Post.
Jacoby's Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004) was hailed in The New York Times as an "ardent and insightful work" that "seeks to rescue a proud tradition from the indifference of posterity." Named a notable nonfiction book of 2004 by The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, Freethinkers was cited in England as one of the outstanding international books of the year by the Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian. Freethinkers was featured in an interview on NOW with Bill Moyers.
The author's previous books include Moscow Conversations (1972), based on her experiences in Moscow from 1969 to 1971; Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge (Harper & Row), a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1984; and Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past (Scribner, 2000).
Jacoby has been a contributor to a wide range of periodicals and newspapers for more than 25 years, on topics including law, religion, medicine, aging, women's rights, political dissent in the Soviet Union, and Russian literature. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Book World, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Newsday, Harper's, The Nation, Vogue, The American Prospect, Mother Jones, and the AARP Magazine, among other publications. They have been reprinted in numerous anthologies of columns and magazine articles.
She is also program director of the Center for Inquiry-New York City, a rationalist think tank, and a regular panelist for On Faith, a Web site sponsored by The Washington Post and Newsweek. She also has her own political blog, The Secularist's Corner, on the Web site of The Washington Post.
Jacoby has been the recipient of many grants and awards, from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Ford Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2001-2002, she was named a fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
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