This book does not promote any sort of free thought. It closes the minds of gullible people and pisses off the rest of us. I wish I would have known this kind of book would plague my 100 level english core requirement as I would have swiftly dropped the class. I hate to slam the articles within specifically because I have no quarrel with the authors who wrote about their ideas and feelings, but they have no place in a school textbook. They should be thought as Op-Ed pieces and nothing more.