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Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge

Author:Bruce S. Thornton
URL: http://www.isi.org/books/bookdetail.aspx?id=4bed3a25-80ba-45b3-a4df-238da1a9c6a8
ISBN: 9781882926343
Publication Info: Wilmington: ISI Books, 1999.
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A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America's tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton's Plagues of the Mind is a forceful vindication of the West's tradition of rational, critical inquiry—a legacy now largely jettisoned in favor of a host of new deities, environmentalism, feminism, primitivism, New Age, and the cult of the therapeutic among them.

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