[OESY]

Michael J. New is a research fellow at Harvard University.

Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Make Smart People
Fall For Stupid Ideas, by Daniel J. Flynn
Crown Forum, 304 pages, $25.95

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

OC, CA ping

[fizziwig]

I was passing by a liberal bookstore in downtown sac the other day and, amazingly, saw Intellectual Morons in the window. I walked in and bought the window copy, the clerk said that it was the only one they had. Even though she made a sale she didn't seem too happy about it.

Its a great read and helps to understand lefty lunacy. Flynn also pokes at right wing idealogues too.

[Dumb_Ox]

There's another good review of this book here.

[roostercashews]

Mr. Flynn has been on the C-SPAN Book-TV channel over the weekend promoting his book. Check the listings.

[buffyt]

I just got

WHY THE LEFT HATES AMERICA by Flynn
and
FDR's FOLLY about how FDR's policies actually PROLONGED the great depression.

And I buy and read ALL books by Ann Coulter. One of the most brilliant minds of our day.

[Dead Dog]

It's called NPS, NPR Pinhead Syndrome: the faulty belief that slow, over articulated and condescending speech overrides reality.

[wizardoz]

But discussing Rand's personal foibles and the bizarre behavior of her followers provides little insight into either the faulty predictions or harmful consequences of objectivist political thought.

Yeah, this is why I didn't really like Paul Johnson's book "Intellectuals." It's pointless to deride thinkers by making sure we know they were ugly, had bad breath, got divorced alot, etc. That's like liberals dismissing the ideas of the Founding Fathers by pointing out that some of them had slaves. So what? Tell us how the *ideas* go astray, not how the authors fall short of them, or aren't attractive advertisements for them.