Status Updates From Higher Superstition: The Ac...

Anybody who thinks of life in a complex ecosystem in a major landscape, say, the continental shelf, a coral reef, or a tropical rainforest, either as a system of competing capitalist enterprises or as a socialist cooperative has been staying up late with the wrong literature. We know of no serious contemporary natural history, ecology, or evolutionary biology so afflicted in its structure.

It would seem to follow, then, that the last eight or ten years should have seen a flock of earnest humanists and social critics crowding into science and mathematics lecture rooms, the better to arm themselves for the fateful confrontation. This has not happened.

If, therefore, we were writing this book ab ovo, the “academic right” would have to join the academic left in its subtitle and there would have to be a chapter on “Intelligent Design Theory.”