Good Gravy!
HOW MUMBO JUMBO CONQUERED THE WORLD is Francis Wheen's wryly smiling polemic against modern-day irrationality and popular delusion. Wheen is a latterday champion of Reason. Anything in this world that is not firmly grounded in Reason, is grist for his calmly relentless mill. He grinds happily and thoroughly the popular icons and delusions of our times, and reads as delusion anything not Reasonable. He is certainly refreshing and amusing, while grinding out the nonsense of political fantasies... Sign in to see full entry.