Dangerous Illusions
by Vitaly Malkin, Arcadia, 416pp, £25
Why read a lavishly produced, glossy hardback book with the subtitle How Religion Deprives Us of Happiness? After all, it is likely to be provocative, ill-informed and written with all the passion of militant atheism.
Dangerous Illusions is all these things, but I was nonetheless curious about how the author, a Russian former physicist and banker, now a businessman and philanthropist, would tackle a highly complex subject that has occupied the greatest minds for many centuries.
