The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond. By L. Benjamin Rolsky. Columbia Series on Religion and Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xvi + 256 pp. $105.00 cloth; $35.00 paper.

2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 492-493
Author(s):  
David Mislin
Paleobiology ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Clyde

In his 1932 book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley laid out a satirical blueprint of a future so strange to people of the time that it became a symbol of the frightening and unyielding momentum of scientific progress. Literature and popular culture have since been littered with images of a future earth so transformed by human progress (or extraterrestrial intervention) that we can hardly recognize it. Earth historians and paleontologists, however, have taken a different path into the bizarre. This group of time travelers has used the kind of technology that Huxley foreshadowed to recreate past worlds of similar disparity. These worlds are neither based on, nor entirely limited by, human imagination, but are based instead on scientific observation. In short, these strange old worlds are real, not imagined. As often is the case, however, truth can b e stranger than fiction.


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