CRISIS IN AMERICA: Defending Reason and Our Liberties May 14, 2005

Is America going mad? Is the world following suit? Sometimes it seems that way to men and women of reason. Just scan the headlines: from religious and ethnic conflict abroad to intrusive Christian piety in the public square. From appalling public ignorance about science to an increasingly standardized media culture that squeezes out dissent. From the specter of Islamic civil war in Iraq to unprecedented efforts to teach creationism in U.S. public schools. A tide of willful orthodoxy is sweeping in. What is to be done? How can defenders of reason, science, and the Enlightenment respond?
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