Talk:Susan Jacoby

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Dates
The dates given for her birth and graduation from college show that she was only 19 when she graduated? That's unusual. I tried to find a source to verify this but can't find one. Can anyone provide a source for these dates?

Pseudovector (talk) 22:08, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I have received personal correspondence from Ms. Jacoby and she reports her graduation date as 1965 (age 20). Still impressive! I've made the change in the article. Pseudovector (talk) 17:35, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Life
This article needs more about its subject's life aside from her career.--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 19:12, 4 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I concur. In particular, the statement about her atheism and secularism sits in the opening paragraph like a billboard in the middle of a clear open space. It is ugly, not in and of itself, but because it stands out. Let us relocate it to a section in the article body, where it will be in better harmony with its surroundings. Tualha (Talk) 23:54, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Online Articles
In addition to her books, should there also be a section concerning online articles she's written? Heather Chait (talk) 19:44, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Canard = hoax?
In the article it says that "Jacoby has argued that the idea of anti-Catholicism being a significant force in American life today is a canard," but do you have a citation for the definition of "canard" meaning "hoax"? Wiktionary does indeed say that a "canard" is something that is deliberately misleading, but it is not clear from the cited source whether, by using that word, Jacoby really intended to accuse her opponents of lying deliberately. Bwrs (talk) 20:37, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Detail
I want more detail about her early works, such as "Moscow Conversations". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.117.79.25 (talk) 14:18, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Request for Comments
There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages.

The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person.

Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 05:11, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Actress of the same name
There is also Susan Jacoby, actress. Maybe most well known from Columbo An Exercise in Fatality,

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7yo6o2uZK84/VYLcjUPotSI/AAAAAAAABCQ/X5WSMmfyJXw/s640/2sssxCapture.JPG

Middle More Rider (talk) 14:01, 5 April 2021 (UTC)