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Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later - Quillette

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Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later - Quillette
You wouldn’t think that a defense of reason, science, and humanism would be particularly controversial in an era in which those ideals would seem to need all the help they can get. But in the words of a colleague, “You’ve made people’s heads explode!” Many people who have written to me about my 2018 book Enlightenment Now say they’ve been taken aback by the irate attacks from critics on both the right and the left. Far from embracing the beleaguered ideals of the Enlightenment, critics have blamed it for racism, imperialism, existential threats, and epidemics of loneliness, depression, and suicide....
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