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The culture war on facts

From The Nation, an article on John Templeton's Universe: The right-wing philanthropist is pushing the phony science of positive psychology to numb Americans into smiley-faced acquiescence to the status quo. When Malkin Attacks! The right-wing blogosphere whipped itself into a self-righteous frenzy bashing a 12-year-old on S-CHIP—too bad they got everything. Who's afraid of Naomi Wolf? The American intellectual and feminist icon does not believe the Bush Administration is run by Nazis, but she is convinced it uses classic Nazi methodology and that the world should be alarmed. A review of The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development is Bringing Down Western Civilization by Diana West. From Taki's Top Drawer, an article on Hitchens unhinged, on Jeffrey Epstein, pervert, and on the neocons and Charles Maurras. From Reason, an article on the culture war on facts: Are you entitled to your own truth?