Intellectual Morons: How Ideology makes smart people fall for stupid ideas

Daniel Flynn could have easily titled this book The Iconoclast’s Bible. In his discussion of each of the “icons” that he “clasts” he meticulously examines what they have said and compares it to what they have done. None of the various people and their ideas can escape the rigorous peeling back of the onionskin that has been carefully laid over their sayings and doings.

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