Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy [Hardcover]

"Brilliant, the corrective we need to pull the nation back from the abyss of unreason."—Dean Koontz

A bestselling moral philosopher dissects and explodes the crazy—but deadly serious—ideas that have spread, bred, and metastasized throughout contemporary society.

What is happening to the world? Why does it seem like everyone has gone insane? Why are so many things that seemingly everyone believed the day before yesterday suddenly held to be retrograde, hateful, or even criminal? And why are things that everyone seemed to view as lunacy the day before yesterday suddenly taught or even required?

InPandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy, University of Texas philosopher J. Budziszewski patiently explains the delusions that beset us. Ranging over the topics of morality and happiness, politics and government, family and sexuality, the real and the unreal, and God and religion, Budziszewski makes the case for sanity in commonsense language accessible to all.Pandemic of Lunacywill be treasured by any who are troubled or confused, any who wonder whether theworldhas gone crazy or whethertheyhave, and any who feel the need for a trustworthy guide in a topsy-turvy age.

Introduction

Some Crazy Ideas Are Deadly Serious

We need to face our society’s problems cheerfully—but to face them cheerfully we need, above all, to face them.

I think most people know that.When I talk to groups about social topics, I am often asked two questions. “What’s wrong with us?”“