Stanley Fish expresses his frustration “at having to expend so much mental and emotional energy refuting the shallow arguments of school-yard atheists like Hitchens and Dawkins” in a post on a new book, Reason, Faith, and Revolution.
we are where we always were, confronted with a choice between a flawed but aspiring religious faith or a spectacularly hubristic faith in the power of unaided reason and a progress that has no content but, like the capitalism it reflects and extends, just makes its valueless way into every nook and cranny.
Unfortunately, there is another alternative to “science, reason, liberalism, [and] capitalism” – and that is the man on the white horse. The elected official who will protect us from the scourges of capitalism and uncertainty.
