How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
Francis Wheen
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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World

Francis Wheen
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In ‘How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World’ book the author examines the rise of superstition, relativism, and emotional hysteria, from fundamentalism to lotteries, astrology, and mysticism. He laments the loss of Enlightenment values, especially in the USA, replaced by irrational beliefs.

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Francis Wheen

Francis Wheen has built a career in journalism and biography by examining politics, public argument, and the appeal of grand claims. How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World surveys fashionable beliefs and intellectual movements that Wheen sees as retreats from evidence and Enlightenment reasoning. PublicAffairs calls it…

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