Why Johnny Can't Think

Unlike Soviet glasnost, American openness is indigenous to its system because the free inquiry into the truth was deemed the most important attribute of a free people by American founders. But in recent decades, this same openness has led to a steady, but deadly, erosion of that truth's certainty, which in turn has led to a kind of cultural nihilism, albeit a trendy one. Briefly, the beliefs underlying contemporary American nihilism run as follows: Granting all opinions equal status, the tr...