The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of InformationIn the tradition of Without Marx or Jesus and How Democrats Perish, Revel issues a call to arms against the most insidious and pervasive force in the world today: the dissemination of false information, the withholding of truths, the distrtions of the day. A brilliant, impassioned, well-argued book. |
Contents
On Our Resistance to Information | 3 |
What Is Our Civilization? II | 11 |
On Simple Lies | 19 |
Copyright | |
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