"Os Guinness has written an exceptional analysis of the Western – and especially the American – moral and political crisis. This lucid and compelling book is startlingly brief because Guinness writes with economy and force. Using stories, examples, pungent quotations, and sheer, logical argument, Guinness details the rise of radical postmodern skepticism in place of the belief in objective truth (and true virtue) upon which our social and political institutions were based."