TIA Daily Contents: What Is Wrong with the World

Want to know why the world is engulfed by violent religious fanaticism abroad and a war between amoral subjectivists and authoritarian religious fundamentalists at home? The New York Times publishes a symposium in which today's intellectuals declare their contempt for the human mind.

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