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One of my favorite books about America's problem with the real and the fake is called The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies.

This is what the New York Times wrote about it when it came out in February of 2008.

There are a few subjects more timely than the ones tackled by Susan Jacobi in her new book.

Susan Jacobi's just updated her book for 2018.

I paid her a visit to find out why.

So, if it was timely in 2008, what do we call the updated version that you're putting out in 2018?

Super timely? Big, bigly timely?

Bigly timely, that sounds good.

In her book, Susan Jacobi traces two critical ingredients of American anti-intellectualism and public ignorance,

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