Not just a problem for the leftists

In The Sleep of Reason, H. E. Baber blames leftists for failing to embrace rationality, although he admits that's there's plenty of supersitition to go around:

[The] disdain for rationality, skepticism about the possibility of objective truth and the unshakable conviction that Life is bigger than Logic is not peculiar to the French "intellectuals" Sokal and Bricmont exposed or to academic literati-it is a feature of popular culture and has persisted even after the collapse of the Left as we knew it because it is preeminently a feature of adolescent romanticism. I get it from students all the time. Every year the freshmen in my intro logic classes, where I devote the first 3 weeks to "critical thinking" and debunking, rehearse the theme. Many are superstitious and almost all buy some version of mellow relativism. Most don't think logic broadly construed is important--in the words of one haunting course evaluation comment: "What's the good of being logical if no one else is?"

Talking to upperclassmen, who were more articulate and reflective, I got a better idea of their views. Even though the politics of the Left had largely disappeared from the undergraduate subculture, like most Americans, students were convinced that rationality, insofar as it was important at all, was exclusively the business of business and the political right. They had learnt in their required intro econ course that rational behavior was, by definition, self-interested. Rationality was appropriate in the workplace and public life; it was irrelevant, and inappropriate, in the private sphere where relationships, "values" and beliefs were based on feelings, culture, faith and brute personal preference.

But it's not just the far left; the far right is just as bad.