Chris Mooney is everywhere. The Daily Show, Fresh Air, the papers, the internet…and everywhere he goes, his hosts say the same thing:

Buy his book.

And guess what I’m going to say?

Buy his book.

Bunches of other bloggers have reviewed it, so I’m not going to spend too much time recapping the basics, but in short, The Republican War on Science is about the right’s multipronged effort to devalue, contradict, and drown out scientific evidence that discredits their agenda. And since their agenda has become wholly business-oriented and/or religiously motivated, Republicans have had too start waging war against empiricism a lot.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.