Author: Carl Coon
Carl Coon is a retired foreign service officer who served as the U.S. ambassador to Nepal from 1981 to 1984. He is the author of Culture Wars and the Global Village (Prometheus, 2002).
The Suspension of Disbelief and the Origin of Culture
Generations from now, historians may look back on our era and marvel at the fact that so many people still literally believed in the articles of faith undergirding the major Western religions. How, they might ask, was it possible that the unbelievable could still be believed by so many at a time when so much …