After the revolution described by Orwell in his classic work 1984, an ideology took over much of the globe. It was called "the Way of Death." It denied everything that had gone before it: the gains made during the Enlightenment, representative government, the rights of man, God, progress, history, and a host of other things we take for granted. Truth itself became a victim of this ideology. Facts were things that could be manipulated for the greater glory of the revolution. Since the 1960s the Western world has undergone a similar ideological transformation. Radical activists have turned society on its...