Anyone out there pretty much wedded to Enlightenment ideals? I hope so. Sadly, in recent decades these have come under attack from a whole slew of irrationalisms.
Cults, quackery, gurus, hysterical panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, pre-modernists and post-modernists, medieval theocrats and New Age mystics. They’re all here trying to drag us back into the darkness.
Francis Wheen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wheen) proves himself to be an adroit and humorous anatomist of all this nonsense. Please enjoy this and also his collected journalism, Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies (http://www.amazon.com/Hoo-hahs-Passing-Frenzies-Francis-Wheen/dp/1843540266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385899113&sr=8-1&keywords=hoo+wheen), which won him the Orwell Prize in 2003.
368 pages in Harper Perennial paperback edition.
ISBN 978-0007140978
Francis Wheen