(Linda Davidson/The Washington Post/File)Contributing columnistMitch Daniels, a Post contributing columnist, is president of Purdue University and a former governor of Indiana. Human nature being as it is, every decade or two someone has to write a book to set us straight and cheer us up. The debate was memorably settled in 1980 when Hudson’s Julian L. Simon proposed a wager to leading doomsayer Paul R. Ehrlich. Those who call themselves progressives really hate progress.”In touting the epistemological superiority of science, the book is harshly dismissive of religion. Given the way we humans take progress for granted, “enlightenment now” will not be the last corrective required.

Source: Washington Post December 26, 2018 23:37 UTC