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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/the_age_of_american_unreason.html
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""The unwillingness to give a hearing to contradictory viewpoints," Jacoby writes, correctly, "or to imagine that one might learn anything from an ideological or cultural opponent, represents a departure from the best side of American popular and elite intellectual traditions.""
"Despite continuing debate about aspects of global warming, for instance, even mild skeptics, as The Wall Street Journal's John Fund recently noted, are often put "in a similar moral category to Holocaust denial." Proponents of intelligent design, eviscerated in "The Age of American Unreason," face similar hostility in the outside world--even, as Ben Stein points out in his upcoming documentary, "Expelled," if they're established scientists. "
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""The unwillingness to give a hearing to contradictory viewpoints," Jacoby writes, correctly, "or to imagine that one might learn anything from an ideological or cultural opponent, represents a departure from the best side of American popular and elite intellectual traditions.""
"Despite continuing debate about aspects of global warming, for instance, even mild skeptics, as The Wall Street Journal's John Fund recently noted, are often put "in a similar moral category to Holocaust denial." Proponents of intelligent design, eviscerated in "The Age of American Unreason," face similar hostility in the outside world--even, as Ben Stein points out in his upcoming documentary, "Expelled," if they're established scientists. "
