The World Turned Upside Down

“A brilliant tour de force, beautifully written and powerfully argued.”

Norman Podhoretz, author of Why Are Jews Liberals?

“With ferocious courage, Melanie Phillips challenges a series of myths and irrationalities that have achieved canonical status in the contemporary world. If civilization depends on the ability to give dissenting voices a hearing, then The World Turned Upside Down may well be one of the most important tests of Western civilization in our time.”

 Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks

“Melanie Phillips has written a fascinating book that is both urgent and important, provocative and deep. It’s almost a guide of the perplexed for our time.”

 William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard

 “One is disturbed each day by verifiably untrue statements touted as incontrovertible facts about hot-button issues. With cold, perceptive, exhaustive and persistent passion, Melanie Phillips dissects the phenomenon among disparate movements, to reach disturbing but compelling conclusions about the erosion of modern liberal society by ideologies whose surprising interconnections are meticulously identified. One can only hope that her book will penetrate the information cocoon into which many of our intelligentsia have sealed themselves.”

Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, MIT

“A trenchant sequel to George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language. Melanie Phillips courageously flushes out today’s equivalents of Orwell’s targets—those who with indignant self-righteousness suppress free debate and liberty itself.”

R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence (1993–1995)