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Ok, he makes some outrageous generalizations that would definitely offend me if I was a historian, an anthropologist, a religious studies scholar, a psychologist, an economist, or a sociologist. BUT I'm not, so they don't. It's ambitious, but it's winking and humble, too. His love of Buddhism means he has no time for the piety of the various intellectual disciplines; he's much more interested in being a pop-Aristotle or Aquinas than being an expert at anything, and I find that philosophy much more interesting than this whole process of situating and taxonimizing knowledge to death.

Also his ideas about the problems modern humans face seem far more plausible than the utopian or dystopian visions I've heard about in the last decade. We've got the global capitalism we deserve, and we'll get the nasty consequences too.