Pandemic of Lunacy

How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy

"Pandemic of Lunacy is brilliant, the corrective we need to pull the nation back from the abyss of unreason.  Too many elites and intellectuals are saturated with ideologized education that has left them withering in a drought of real knowledge and common sense.  Caring guides like J.  Budziszewski might bring the best of them back from the realm of false light." — Dean Koontz, bestselling author

“This book is simply the most complete, clear, and uncompromising account of our decaying culture's insanity that I have read yet.” — Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy, Boston College

“Philosophy and science go deeper than what common sense tells us, and sometimes correct it around the edges.  But as thinkers like Aristotle and Aquinas knew, sound philosophy and science cannot coherently reject common sense altogether, especially in what it tells us about everyday human life.  Modern thought has been plagued by one assault on common sense after another, typically grounded in simple but persistent fallacies.  We need books that expose these fallacies and come to the defense of common sense.  J.  Budziszewski provides exactly that.” — Edward Feser, author, Five Proofs of the Existence of God

J.  Budziszewski offers both a subtle and wide-ranging exposition of the various individual lunacies that make up our corporate social insanity.  His is a sober and shrewd voice that offers answers to our malaise.  This is a profoundly helpful book for those wanting clarity in our deeply chaotic times.— Carl Trueman, author, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

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Every day the news headlines are filled with conflicting versions of the same story.  Biological facts are treated as “opinions,” logic is labeled as “hate,” and to speak up for common sense is seen as a revolutionary act.  What is happening to the world?   Why are things that everyone viewed as lunacy the day before yesterday suddenly taught—or even required?   Our culture isn’t just polarized.  In many places it is downright insane. 

Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy tackles thirty of the most damaging and unhinged lunacies infecting today’s culture.  The author says, “We are living through a pandemic of lunacy, not harmless goofiness like wishing everyone a ‘Gninrom doog’ instead of a ‘Good morning,’ but contagious delusions like thinking that each person has his own reality or that any group of people might count as a marriage.  Such fantasies hurt us and tear up our lives, both individually and in what we share.  To escape and to challenge them, we need to begin thinking clearly.”

Ranging from morality and happiness, to politics and government, to family and sexuality, to human nature, to what is real and unreal, to God and religion, Budziszewski shares out loud what many people are thinking.  And he provides the tools for reclaiming our sanity.