The case against ideology…

Ideological truth is an oxymoron. We spent the last two centuries debunking ideologies—all the different –isms, like Marxism, Nazism, Zionism, Socialism, Communism, and so forth. We are still fighting some of those. They’re like shingles—dormant viruses that awaken from time to time to attack the body politic.

This century we are increasing our understanding of how the human brain works. It has a marvelous capacity for reason and logic, often creating great thoughts, inventing new technologie...