Frum, David, How We Got Here: The 1970s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse)

Frum, David. How We Got Here: The 1970s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse). New York: Basic Books: 2000.

Argues that in the transition centering on the 1970s in the US, there was a rejection of rationalism, but that “rejection of rationalism was not a rejection of machines; it was a rejection of the bureaucracy and habits of mind that linked the machines together, of the administrators who ran the bureaucracy, of the society that hired those administrators, in short, of the power that had somehow drifted into the burearucrats’ hands. For all the folly and self-indulgence of the anti-rationalists, they were onto something real.” Rev. Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 20 March 2000: 32, source here, including the quotation from DF.