DUMBING DOWN A collection of essays edited and introduced by Ivo Mosley. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0907845652 Published by Imprint Academic, April 2000. In DUMBING DOWN, a diverse group of people explore the implications of the world-wide shedding of cultures in the old sense, and the ascendancy of a global mono-culture in the new. From the Introduction: Never before in human history has so much cleverness been used to such stupid ends... In the face of an uncertain and alarming future, people fight off gloom and stupefaction by withdrawing into trivia and addictions to money, drugs, power... Dumbing Down is a phenomenon observable in almost all walks of life; politics, culture, civil administration, the media, science, education.   Contributing Essays/Interviews: Tam Dalyell, Michael Oakeshott, Redmond Mullin, Michael Johnson, Dominic Hobson, Ravi Shankar, Philip Rieff, Robert Brustein, Anne Glyn-Jones, Roger Deakin, Mark Ryan, Adam Boulton, Oliver O’Donovan, Laura Gascoigne, David Lee, Peter Randall-Page, Bill Hare, Michael Polanyi, Claire Fox, Andrew Williams, Joan Leach, Shaun Mosley, John Ziman, Jaron Lanier, Walter J. Freeman, Helen Oppenheimer, Nicholas Mosley, C.D. Darlington, Demelza Spargo. Praise in the press for DUMBING DOWN: 'If there is hope at all, it lies in the existence of books like this' Geoffrey Wheatcroft, the Daily Mail. 'The lively intelligence of the essays cannot and must not be dismissed… to be read and enjoyed by all' Chris Woodhead, the Sunday Telegraph. 'An entertaining and informative read' - Septimus Waugh, Literary Review. 'Well-selected and serious' Contemporary Review. 'Bold, straight-talking polemic; Dumbing Down tackles the necessary questions of our time' - Marina Warner; 'At last! A guide to the moronic inferno!' Laurence Coupe, PN Review. BACK TO HOME PAGE IMPRINT ACADEMIC