COLUMBIA — It didn't take long for Susan Jacoby, a New York Times best-selling author, to get her point acrossTuesday when she spoke at Columbia College. She blamed the media, schools and the religious right for the "dumbing down of America."
Author says anti-rationalism, anti-intellectualism to blame for American ignorance
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | 9:46 p.m. CDT
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