This exciting new series, THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT, tackles today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Giving top opinion makers a forum to explore topics that matter to themselves and their readers, the aim is: to say things that need saying. "…one would like to think that the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, is the island of sanity still remaining. But what you folks are about to read is any indication, we've all got a lot to worry about. The question that presents itself is whether near-pathological dizziness and irrationality in our society has so invaded this nation's marrow that, like a wildly infectious virus, even the Supreme Court is not immune." -from No Island of Sanity.