Tag: Irrationality

There really is such a thing as American exceptionalism: we are more gullible than the public in the rest of the developed world. Sitting pretty at No.1 on The New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list is a secondhand memoir, Heaven Is For Real , describing a four-year-old boy’s visit—when he nearly died from a burst appendix—to a heaven complete with clouds, winged inhabitants, and a baby sister his parents had lost to a miscarriage. Only in America could a book like this be classified as nonfiction.

How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality?

A mother who used a steak knife to repeatedly stab, mutilate and decapitate her 4-week old baby says “the Devil” told her to do it.

Christopher Hitchens uses the “Muhammad cartoon” debate to make the case for free expression and the right to mock faiths of all stripes.