Open And Shut Case Dept.

As of late I've been reading Sir Karl Popper'sThe Open Society and Its Enemies,and with only slightly less enthusiasm than a man fresh from three weeks in the desert reserves for the first water spigot he finds. Like Barrows Dunham'sMan Against Myth — another book I cherish, and which I feel perpetually ashamed of never taking the time to talk about properly — it was written as a defense of democratic and rational society, on the grounds that it's just about impossible to will anything else i...