The Edges of Reason

Ross Douthat | New York Times

When I was a child I lived in several worlds. First was the world that I understood to be the normal one: a world where people had professional degrees and followed their doctor’s instructions strictly and carefully; a world ruled by a solid-seeming secular and liberal consensus about what was scientific, what was certain, what was true.

Then there were the other, stranger worlds — which we explored for . . .

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