John Ralston Saul is the International President of PEN International, an essayist, novelist, and long-time champion of freedom of expression. His works have been translated into twenty-three languages in thirty countries, are widely taught in universities, and central to the debate over contemporary society in many countries. They include the philosophical trilogy: "Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West", "The Doubter's Companion", "The Unconscious Civilization", and its conclusion, "On Equilibrium". In "The Collapse of Globalism", he predicted today's economic crisis. I...