Obscurantism (from the Latin obscurans, "darkening")'s the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known. There're two common senses of this: (1) opposition to the spread of knowledge—a policy of withholding knowledge from the general public; and (2) a style (as in literature, art, philosophy, or theology) characterized by deliberate vagueness or abstruseness. In this article, obscurantism in the first and second senses are explained in sepa… (More on Obscurantist)