The Assault on Reason
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An indictment of the Bush-led radical Right's disdain for the principles of reasoned decision-making, and a reckoning with the degradation of the public sphere that facilitates their rule of unreason. The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani … for all its sharply voiced opinions, The Assault on Reason turns out to be less a partisan, election-cycle harangue than a fiercely argued brief about the current Bush White House that is grounded in copiously footnoted citations from newspaper articles, Congressional testimony and commission reports a brief that is as powerful in making its points about the implications of this administration s policies as the author s 2006 book, An Inconvenient Truth, was in making its points about the fallout of global warming.
Introduction 9The Politics of Fear 47Blinding the Faithful 84The Politics of Wealth 131Convenient Untruths 179The Assault on the Individual 229National Insecurity 284The Carbon Crisis 337Democracy in the Balance 379A Well-Connected Citizenry 432Conclusion: The Rebirth of Democracy 476Acknowledgments 481Notes 485
