The Right Wing’s War on Science

"We don't need any damn experts to tell us how the world works.  

God tells us all we need to know."  

One of the most powerful currents in 20th-and 21st-century Western life is the political right's celebration of willful ignorance. In this fascinating workshop, we'll inquire deeply into the origins and development of the growing anti-science bias in our culture, its link to religious fundamentalism, and its entrenched role at the very heart of right-wing politics in America and Europe.  

Here are a few of the intriguing ideas we'll consider: 

• Darwin Did It! 

• Denialism — From Evolution, to the Holocaust, to Tobacco, to Climate, to COVID (and so much more)