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Author Susan Jacoby criticizes the degeneration of language within politics and the use of "folks" in the 2008 United States primary debates.
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Writer and scholar Susan Jacoby is sure to raise some hackles with The Age of American Unreason - an unsparing jeremiad that attacks the dumbing-down of the American public. Jacoby's area of study is US intellectual history, though she worries that the field is becoming a moot point in the face of our country's pervasive "infotainment" complex.
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http://fora.tv/2008/04/24/Susan_Jacoby_on_The_Age_of_American_Unreason (http://fora.tv/2008/04/24/Susan_Jacoby_on_The_Age_of_American_Unreason)