There is a pervasive disease of the intellect infecting our culture, and it is called postmodernism. In a highly readable and understandable set of essays, Dennis McCallum and seven others explain this affliction and its impact, and set the stage for ways to react to it.

Briefly and inadequately explained, postmodernism is subjectivity and selfishness taken to the ultimate: It concludes that opinions matter as much as evidence, that all views (except absolute ones!) are equally valid. McCallum compares the postmodern infection to Darwinism: A point of view that, once entrenched in society, will be very difficult to counter - but he sees the potential problem postmodernism poses as far more threatening that Darwinism ever was.

The first four chapters lay groundwork, discussing the tenets of postmodernism and its unwitting ideological father, modernism - the "cold science" that spawned the "warm fuzzy". Postmodernism itself is found in two general guises: The "affirmative" sort, which is relatively friendly, but has produced the modern political correctness movement, and the "skeptical" sort. Postmodernism is then evaluated and exposed as both self-contradictory and self-defeating - not that this would bother postmodernists, since logical conclusions are thought to be no better than one's subjective opinion anyway!

The next several chapters are spent addressing eight major fields where postmodernism is doing major damage. Of primary interest to the apologist are the sections on literature (where postmodernism's assumption of the authority of the reader over authorial intent has obvious implications for the reading of the Bible, as well as the reading of political charter documents like the Constitution), education, history, and religion. In each of the eight chapters, practical, real-life examples are offered, and summary points are encapsulated at the conclusion.