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Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests, substantive, thought-provoking questions on all of the important news and issues of our day.

The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology,

and apologetics. Expert guests? Expansive topics. Always extolling Christ. Issues, etc. With all the lies that fly under the banner of woke ideology, I've been observing for several years now that it's not just an assault, it's not just an attack or a war

on common sense. It's not just a war on reality. It's really a war on sanity as well. So is it

possible that even those who decry the lunacy of our times in some form or another

except lesser versions of the same lies? Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin,

joining us to make the case for common sense sanity. Dr. J. Bujashevsky, he's professor of

government and philosophy at the University

of Texas Austin. He's author of a new book, Pandemic of Lunacy, How to Think Clearly

When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy. Dr. Bujeshefsky, welcome back.

Thank you very much. I'm glad to be on the show.

Why do you choose that word lunacy to describe the ideas infecting our society, our institutions, and culture?

Well, it's an edgy word, but I choose it because I think that these ideas are really crazy.

If somebody says that basic right and wrong are different for everyone, for instance, I think we actually know better than that.

You have to be monkeying with your own mind pretty seriously in order to believe that, for instance, I think we actually know better than that. You have to be monkeying with your own mind pretty seriously in order to believe that, for

example, murder is right for me, but not right for you, or something of that sort.

Or the idea, I hear this for my students all the time, they're hearing it from their psychology

professors.

There is no such thing as virtue.

There is no such thing as good character.

Who, even, I suspect,

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