Preface

Introduction

Origins of Scientific Materialism

1. Nothing Buttery from Atomism to the Enlightenment

2. Darwin’s Revolution

Crime and Punishment

3. Criminal Science

4. Crime as Mental Illness

5. Turning Punishment into Treatment

Wealth and Poverty

6. Law of the Jungle

7. Breeding Our Way out of Poverty

8. The Science of Business

9. Building the World of Tomorrow

Schools and Scholars

10. Darwin Day in America

11. Banned in Burlington

12. Junk Science in the Bedroom

13. Sex Miseducation

Life and Death

14. Redefining Life

15. Redefining Death

Conclusion: The Abolition of Man

Afterword to the Paperback Edition: Scientism in the Age of Obama—and Beyond

Notes

Index