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• This book details the long and checkered set of battles that have been won and lost over the years to try and ensure the Enlightenment is not lost in a new dark age.
• Are the people still sufficiently well informed to be trusted with their own government?
• In an age when most major public-policy challenges revolve around science, fewer than 1 percent of US congresspersons have professional backgrounds in it. The
• In contrast, how many representatives and senators might one suppose have law degrees—
• In the United States, it’s 213, or roughly 40 percent.