By Melanie Phillips. Now in paperback with a new foreword by David Mamet
Encounter Books, New York, (December 2011),
ISBN: 978-1-59403-574-6
In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. A loss of religious belief has led the West to replace reason and truth with ideology and prejudice. The result has been a kind of mass derangement, as truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down.
Published in: Melanie's blog
People have asked me to indicate precisely where on the BBC Radio Two Jeremy Vine show website to find my encounter yesterday with Ben Soffer of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Access the link to the show here, and scroll along to 14.30 when this discussion starts.
Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known for her controversial column about political and social issues which currently appears in the Daily Mail. Awarded the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1996, she is the author of All Must Have Prizes, an acclaimed study of Britain's educational and moral crisis, which provoked the fury of educationists and the delight and relief of parents.
