Ben Witherington, III, on why The Da Vinci Code's implausible account of history seems credible to many people

Christopher Shannon, on Ivan Illich (Medical Nemesis) and the loss of belief in the possibility that suffering can be meaningful

Roger Lundin, on how nature and experience replaced revelation as a source of authority (and why they fail to serve as such)

Roger Lundin, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on the necessity of humility in the writing of biographies