A Short Review of Pandemic of Lunacy in World.
Ethics and morality
Pandemic of Lunacy
J. Budziszewski
Creed & Culture, 248 pages
It’s not safe to refer to what plagues our culture as “issues.” Rather we have crises all around: men claiming to be women, boys demanding access to girls’ locker rooms, mail-order abortions and taxpayer-funded sex-change operations, and everywhere people insisting that we celebrate deviance as “identities.” What makes it crazy is that people seem to be complying. Speaking to this chaos, professor and philosopher J. Budziszewski exposes 30 lunacies grouped into six categories of delusion: about happiness, politics and government, the family and sexuality, human nature, reality, and God and religion. Drawing in part from his classroom encounters teaching at the University of Texas at Austin, Budziszewski reveals the folly of modern thinking, showing how to unravel its confusion with logic and philosophy. His chapters are readable and short, and his arguments are clear and accessible to regular people. “Derangement has real-world consequences,” says Budziszewski. “Against everyday delusions, everyday sanity is fighting for life, and the everyday lives of adults and children are increasingly disordered.” Our age may not have invented all of these lunacies, he says, but “in ours they run riot.” Pandemic of Lunacy is his effort to elevate common sense and “make a small contribution to sunny sanity.” We need it. —Candice Watters
