In conversation with Jack Miles, Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies, UC Irvine
The Age of American Unreason
From the author of Freethinkers, a dazzlingly insightful—and occasionally hilarious—analysis of the anti-rationalism, anti-intellectualism, and anti-scientism that increasingly characterizes the cultural and intellectual life of this country.
Susan Jacoby's last book, Freethinkers, was championed by Philip Roth, Sam Harris, and the late Arthur Schlesinger. She is a regular commentator on NPR, and a contributor to the New York Times, among many others. She is the author of seven books, including Wild Justice, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Jack Miles: MacArthur Fellow, Senior Advisor to the President at the J. Paul Getty Trust, and visiting scholar at Occidental College, is a writer whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and many other publications. His book GOD: A Biography won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 and has been translated into sixteen languages. A sequel to tha tbook entitled CHRIST: A Crisis in the Life of God was published simultaneously in 2001 in the United States, Britain, Germany, and France. He is Senior Fellow with the Pacific Council on International Policy, serves on the final selection committee of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and is general editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of World Religions.
