Why bother
This article is so hard to read, so frustrating, because it begs the question in an extremely infuriating manner. Positing modern higher education (hell, most of modern culture) as "post-faith and post-reason" as well as "post-moral, post-religious" and claiming that the "existential consequence" of neuroscience is that "the soul and free will are illusions" and thus meaning is dead, etc, etc, is ridiculous. The whole essay is a scared conservative's version of postmodernism, of Nietszche, of practically everything they discuss. It's extremely tempting to fisk the whole thing, to go through and explore the hasty assumptions, the unjustified conclusions and the outright confusion that the authors exhibit. But really, it's not worth it, especially on Saturday night.
