Queen's Quarterly, March 22nd, 1999
THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Carl Sagan. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996. It is interesting that The X-Files has been one of the most popular television shows over the past half decade. This is probably not because of its stars' minimalist acting, which might be a homage to Saturday morning cartoons. Judging by the take-offs that have appeared, entertainment executives think that the key to The X-Files is its imaginative acceptance of the paranormal. Some part of the recent bull market in the paranormal stems from millennial fever. But aliens, ghosts, witches, te...
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