Theodore Dalrymple, contributing editor of City Journal and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute: “One of the more pernicious aspects of contemporary ideologies is their demand that we propound and defend ideas we know to be false.”
Read Dr. Dalrymple’s full article Lying to Ourselves
Also check out a selection of his books Life at the Bottom and Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy