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“Hitchens is an opportunity to be delighted or maddened—possibly both—but in any case

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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World max einstein “Hitchens is an opportunity toWhat characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way, Wheen shows that there has been a pervasive erosion of