08.27.08
A REALLY bad book about ten books that don’t belong together
In the present book, the professor of philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville proposes not a new era of book burning, as some might suppose, but rather a learned critique of toxic ideas floating in our cultural water. Wiker plays the role of EPA in the “Great Books” world, covering Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx/Engels, Mill, Darwin, Nietzsche, Lenin, Sanger, Hitler, Freud, Mead, Kinsey, and Friedan.
This should be called a really bad book about a grap bag books that don’t fit together in one category.
I find the perspective here, evidently that of the Discovery Institute, almost completely baffling. Beyond the question of ID, this list shows an incomprehensible view of the intellectual history of the last five hundred years.
To put Freidan, Mill and Sanger, Rousseau and Descartes with Hitler is a gesture revealing an ignorance and incomprehension that I find breathtaking.
Small wonder Darwinists won’t budge an inch and lurk terrified in their foxholes.