Clear Thinking In a Crazy Culture, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, May 22, 2026

Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org. See full bio.

J. Budziszewski, Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy. Creed & Culture, Nashville, TN. 248pp. Hardcover: $30.00; eBook: $22.00; Audiobook: $26.26.

One of the most troubling aspects of arguing with those who hold all the standard popular errors is that false positions are so often advanced and defended based either on personal “feelings” (for which we can often read personal “desires”) or on what “everybody knows”, meaning that counter-opinions are instantly categorized as both inadmissible and personally vicious. Moreover, the intellectual and spiritual darkness is so willfully pervasive that it is hard even to get in a position to open a window to shed some light. And that is precisely why J. Budziszewski has done us all a service by identifying thirty such errors, mostly torn from this same old cloth, in a single extraordinarily useful book: Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy. …

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