| 单词 | irrationality |
| 例句 | Then the potential enemy is tempted to submit on points of dispute rather than unleash a global confrontation, which the aura of irrationality has made plausible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I sometimes wonder how much irrationality in the world has been excused by the nonsensical saying “Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” a corruption of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s remark about “a foolish consistency.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One of the first mathematical proofs in history was about the incommensurability/irrationality of the square’s diagonal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And yet persons here and there declined to migrate; that, even to those involved, constituted a perplexing irrationality. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The possibility of social irrationality resting on a base of individual rationality is suggested by a slight variant of Condorcet’s original example. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the proof of the irrationality of V2, like the discussion of simultaneity in special relativity, this is an argument in which the premise is challenged because the conclusion seems absurd. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Truly effective nuclear bluffing, however, includes occasional postures of irrationality, a distancing from the horrors of nuclear war. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the back of my mind lingered an awareness of the hideous irrationality of this situation, but at the forefront, there was only blind terror. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There’s no feverish, heat-induced irrationality motivating them – for one thing, those Wyoming hillside nights get pretty darn cold – but a deep-rooted emotional need that neither man quite understands. The 10 best summer romance films 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z “I have never ever in my life sought to actively fight racism. I have simply adduced myself as evidence of its absolute stupidity and irrationality.” Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z What the sale of Koons’s “Rabbit” — an auction record for a living artist — is telling us with special force is that the question of valuation is not just about rationality or irrationality. Perspective | A bunny sculpture by Jeff Koons just sold for $91.1 million — another sign that the art world is untethered from reality 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Her thesis is that in the wake of the barbarity of World War II, irrationality became a widespread focus among artists, who wanted to “simulate or stimulate delirium,” Ms. Baum writes in the catalog. Postwar Art Gets a Nervy Makeover 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Those were merely the most extravagant examples of an office reportedly steeped in irrationality, intimidation and humiliation. Perspective | Scott Rudin’s bad behavior was just another Hollywood cliche until a new generation said time’s up 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Yet, while embracing those brisk qualities, they also entertain such contradictory elements as idiosyncrasy, irrationality and visual repose. John M. Miller, artist behind painstakingly painted geometric abstractions, dies at 77 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z And their primary mission is not to prove the irrationality of religious belief. Don’t stop believin’: Do atheists need a church? 2013-04-28T16:00:00Z Despite the forward planning, however, when it comes to the act of writing, he's sticking with irrationality. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z His primary subject, the irrationality of evil, may need the irrational magic of film to be truly effective. Art Review | 'William Kentridge: Five Themes': Anger and Angst, Explored With Animation 2010-02-25T22:41:00Z His paintings and prints make the potency of night terrors real and frightening – but what frightens us is not witchcraft but superstition, madness and human irrationality. Witches have always cast a wicked spell over art 2012-12-17T15:09:03Z This eddy of masculine irrationality turns out to have its roots in the Age of Reason. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The sculptures that serve as props or sets are conceived in the same spirit of creative irrationality: Bock collages everyday household objects into dysfunctional machines or assemblages of whatchamacallits. Artist of the week 2010-08-04T16:33:00Z By the end, you might feel, as Valentine does, “captive in the dread country of delusion and irrationality,” but if you’re not blinded by McCabe’s verbal pyrotechnics you can make out where he’s been going. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The Dionysian irrationality of our emotional and sexual lives promised an antidote to the ugly, transactional, bureaucratic side of capitalism. Love in the time of layoffs 2012-08-03T20:12:00Z The music of this apotheosis is a calm, seductively beautiful celebration of irrationality, disorder and mindless obedience, one of the scariest final curtains in all of opera. Christoph von Dohnanyi Conducts Hans Werner Henze 2012-03-16T16:11:31Z The result is a rich and unblinkingly reasonable portrait of a mental illness whose hallmark may be irrationality. 'The Man Who Couldn't Stop' a rich, reasonable look at OCD 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Louis Theroux, your TV guide to society's colourful fringes, last night took a tour of the West Bank, the white-hot centre of global human irrationality. TV review: Marchlands, Louis Theroux: Ultra Zionists 2011-02-04T10:09:57Z These narratives, in which prehistoric habits of survival become today’s intellectual liabilities, are supposed to undermine religion by scientifically demonstrating the irrationality at its core. The Twain Shall Meet 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Even minor characters, with their strengths and faults and fits of irrationality, emerge as complicated, three-dimensional beings. | 'Making Plans for L?na': Chiara Mastroianni in Christophe Honor??s Drama 2010-08-19T23:10:00Z It did change how I felt to hear his mind-set and his irrationality. “It wasn’t your fault” 2013-04-19T11:45:00Z However, psychologists don’t agree about what causes our irrationality. Procrastination rules 2012-07-02T01:00:00Z “Chandu” is founded on pure irrationality and the primacy of the visual. Presto! Pulp and Poetry: ‘Chandu the Magician’ and ‘Stranger on the Third Floor’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z They skewer white privilege, dwell on its irrationality, and, in so doing, turn aggressors into mockable memes. The Summer of Coupon Carl, Permit Patty, and the Videos That Turn Cop-Callers into Mockable Memes 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z On the other, it might just as well be set during the dark ages, in a realm of grinding poverty and ironclad irrationality, leagues away from the civilised world. 'Beyond the Hills has no obvious villains': Cristian Mungiu 2013-03-07T17:35:43Z In fact, he appeared way more indispensable in death than he ever was in life and ironically he’d have been the first person to see the irrationality of his newly elevated status. My husband died. Now my daughter hates me | Mariella Frostrup 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z When Mellie hears smear suggestions that play off of Langston’s irrationality as a mourning widow, the First Lady grins: “Sexist. Perfect.” Scandal Watch: Welcome Back, Gladiators 2014-02-28T16:42:07Z Also nagging is that the play’s financial angle gets short shrift; Stoppard’s puckish observation about the emotional irrationality of markets ought to pack more of a complementary punch. Mind games and melodrama in Stoppard’s ‘Hard Problem’ 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Persistent colonial assumptions about the irrationality of Indian religions meant that some of Bapu’s doctors were disdainfully dismissive. In ‘Strangers to Ourselves,’ a Revelatory Account of Mental Illness 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z In his current semi-retirement, Colquhoun was hoping to complete a book on the mathematical and statistical principles of pharmacology, but he worries the sheer irrationality of the world might yet prevent him. David Colquhoun, Twitter-addicted scourge of scientific quackery 2013-04-21T08:00:08Z The touches of irrationality, which formerly inhabited his dream sequences, began to bleed into the “actual” worlds of his films. Viewing Ingmar Bergman Through a Glass Less Darkly 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The irrationality of “Irrational Man” is this faith in the ordinary—and it’s not entirely new to Allen’s work. The Existential Genius of Late Woody Allen 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z I, on the other hand, took an alarming detour into irrationality as the week wore on. Modern Love: A 5-Pound Sack of Maternal Wisdom 2010-10-22T18:56:00Z Its truth is not like the canons of orthodoxy or the irrationality of prejudice and superstition. Chinua Achebe obituary 2013-03-22T13:56:09Z But they usually assume that the purpose of reasoning is to help an individual arrive at the truth, and that irrationality is a kink in that process, a sort of mental myopia. Reasoning, Scholars Say, Evolved Just as a Means to Win 2011-06-14T11:55:00Z All of this seems to suggest the winsome irrationality of magical realism. The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam – review 2013-02-11T07:00:01Z But as an art form, it needs irrationality to flourish. Perspective | In praise of the messy, misunderstood masterpiece (and in search of the next one) 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z It was the first book to make me see that there was as much “irrationality” as “rationality” in the ancient world — and so-called “irrationality” seemed much more exciting to me in the early 1970s. Mary Beard Would Like a Moratorium on Churchill Biographies, Thank You 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z That first devastating breakup is fertile territory for a novelist: The misery, irrationality and fits of self-destruction that young exes indulge are all excellent fodder for fiction. Their Romance Dissolved. So the Heroines of This Novel Seek Their Roots. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Wisecracking through his panic, he sends up the irrationality menacing him. Joe Morton, 'Turn Me Loose' and the sly comic activism of Dick Gregory 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Thanks to this, any woman showing even slight signs of irrationality was immediately labelled a "bunny-boiler". Clip joint: Rabbits 2012-12-12T17:22:24Z Here, if you look at the US primaries, you have to be impressed and appalled by the utter irrationality of the species. Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump: 'Almost a death knell for the human species' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The first precept of duende was “irrationality,” which Mr. Calderon appears to have interpreted as “making sense is optional.” Review: ‘Master of the Crossroads’ Embraces Irrationality 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Sydney offers a blunt rebuttal, reminding us of our limitless capacity for aggression, deceit, irrationality and plain old meanness. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The alliterative linking of menstruation to Mesmer mocks the irrationality of the scientific establishment with regard to both. Poem of the week: The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium by Heather Hartley 2010-11-22T13:27:00Z The artists of the dada and Surrealist movements, scarred by the irrationality of World War I, tried to destroy reason itself. Perspective | How Banksy’s latest stunt plays into the history of destruction in avant-garde art 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z I was often dismayed by Noah’s behavior and the seeming irrationality of it. Talking About Sex and ‘The Affair’ With Dominic West 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z To a surprising degree, Zurich, the Swiss city we think of as home to banks and burghers, was also a fountain of creativity, embracing irrationality even more passionately than Paris did. Lenin and the Russian Spark 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Here the irrationality was subdued as the piece obsessed over a contrast between very high and very low notes, its early stillness unsettled by threatening brays from a solo trombone and snaps from an accordion. Review: Two BBC Proms More Modern than Pastoral 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Levin comes, in time, to value these attributes and resigns himself to living with her neediness, her irrationality, her trivial demands. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s also that he’s mistakenly convinced himself that he himself isn’t governed by emotions or susceptible to the same kind of irrationality he condemns in others. A man becomes impossibly pedantic and gets a reality TV show in 'The One-Eyed Man' by Ron Currie Jr. 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z But I sneaked unnoticed into the Everyman Library edition recently and, burrowing deep, loved the rich complexity, the wise and barbed exploration of corruption and the absurd irrationality of the human condition. How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writer’s Block 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z She is unafraid of delivering harsh but fair justice, isn’t prone to irrationality, and she holds herself like a queen. 'Jon will murder Dany then reign': you predict who will win Game of Thrones 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z “Other actors projected control,” writes Morrison, “Kean projected danger” — and even irrationality. Review | The volatile era that gave rise to Jane Austen and Lord Byron 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z But we would be wise to remember that, along with the virtues that Gewen finds in Kissinger’s performance, there was also incoherence, irrationality and shortsightedness. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “To be a good widow, as to be a good wife, one must learn how to lie convincingly,” Oates writes, just as Michaela is starting to slip badly into irrationality. Review | Joyce Carol Oates captures the wobbly reality of widowhood in ‘Breathe’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z It is a disarming testament to the power true love has to cross societal boundaries, to reveal their irrationality, and to heal. Homeless in Seattle, and Marrying Under the Overpass 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Are cancer and flesh-eating bacteria manifestations of irrationality? The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z Harrod sums up Cardew's life as a critique of modern consumer capitalism, a series of romantic refusals, a plea for irrationality. The Last Sane Man by Tanya Harrod – review 2013-04-12T08:59:01Z Now that Oliver’s in the anchor chair, he’s had to transition from the voice or irrationality to the voice of reason. John Oliver’s Daily Show: “A Little Weird,” But Maybe It Should Be Weirder 2013-06-13T14:13:28Z Romanticism went well beyond classicism and confronted the dark irrationality within the human condition. Notes and queries: When red lights might not mean stop; What makes classical music classical music? Why Ludo and Monopoly players are good sports 2010-08-31T23:05:00Z Its electronic effects and microtones conveyed the central character’s psychic swerves between rationality and irrationality. John Eaton, Composer and Electronic Innovator, Dies at 80 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Rather they deliberately promulgate blatant lies which play to voters’ irrationalities and insecurities. A crash course in understanding numbers 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z It may be arguable, at a pinch, that Goya's paintings are "critiques" of this bloodsport among bloodsports – after all, he did see the Spain of his age as a place of savage irrationality. Is the art of bullfighting dead? 2010-07-29T14:12:00Z She writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence, and for the narrator’s opaque understanding of herself. With Sensuality and Coolness, a Debut Novel Considers the (Partial) Truths We Tell About Ourselves 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Dada taught Pivi, who had studied chemical nuclear engineering in college, to embrace irrationality. Paola Pivi’s American Moment 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Ms. French said his descent into irrationality mirrored Ireland’s, in a way. Tana French Finds Her Niche in Dark Themes 2012-08-26T21:37:24Z They offer narratives of belief, and novelistic narratives make real the ambiguity, the contradiction, the intermittence, even the absurdity and comic irrationality of our intellectual lives. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z Marta, who is drunk, displays the spiteful irrationality of a jealous, overbearing parent faced with a rival. How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman – review 2013-02-08T08:00:01Z With the feelings of some affluent local residents running high, an attempt could be made to challenge the lawfulness of the way the decision was made - on the grounds of illegality, procedural unfairness or irrationality. Wimbledon expansion plan moves closer after vote 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z As it approaches, the stakes rise and transfer business acquires a unique irrationality. Open low, move fast, walk away - the art of the transfer deal 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Like many viewers, I was drawn to Richie, in spite of all his anger and irrationality. ‘The Bear’ and the need for a place to belong | David French 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Freud’s greatest accomplishment was diagnosing the essential irrationality of the human mind. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z People who are prone to fits of anger, who are occasionally panic-stricken, subject to bias, and sometimes overcome by irrationality. So how do we locate the good guy with the gun? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The discipline of behavioral economics and the related fields of behavioral finance and neuroeconomics specialize in exploring the biases and irrationality that can lead to the “madness of crowds” in financial markets. How the Psychology of Silicon Valley Contributed to a Bank Collapse 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z But, just as much, I also embraced irrationality and made picks on whims. Sports-Betting Apps Transform Clueless Spectators Into Rabid Fans. Trust Me. 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z One example of the system’s irrationality: D.C.’s current criminal code punishes arson of one’s own property more severely than other arson. Opinion | D.C. is finally rewriting its criminal code. It needs to keep working. 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z His book The Demon Haunted World, completed just before his death in 1996, is perhaps the best antidote to fuzzy thinking about pseudo- science and irrationality in print today. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Kamikaze attacks that took place towards the end of the war were regarded as proof of the irrationality of Japanese martial values and mindless loyalty to Emperor Hirohito. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Whether attacking pizza or the vice president, this is a politics grounded in unethical inconsistencies and immoral irrationality. How Trump redefined shameless hypocrisy — and made it politically indispensable 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z A 20th-century paradox: If the 1917 revolution had not infected Russia with communism, there would have been no Cold War; but communism’s stultifying irrationalities determined the war’s fortunate outcome. Opinion | China’s decline may be looming. Here’s how the U.S. can win, if it so chooses. 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Few presidents have ever confronted so much irrationality and fewer still have had to do so. No exit: After Mar-a-Lago raid, Trump is trapped — and his fear is palpable 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z "The irrationality of his thinking in this case is off the scale," Peskov said in a conference call with reporters. Kremlin says Zelenskiy call for Western ban on all Russians is irrational 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z It is tempting to postulate technological determinism as the answer to this question: Why are extremism, irrationality, fear and censoriousness especially rampant where they should be next to nonexistent? Opinion | Blaming social media for academia’s ruin misses a larger, darker truth 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z As a cult of irrationality and violence, it could not be vanquished as an argument: So long as Nazi Germany seemed strong, Europeans and others were tempted. Opinion | We Should Say It. Russia Is Fascist. 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The political case against Trump, meanwhile, has always rested substantially on his alleged irrationality: that he inhabits a “post-truth” factual universe that rejects information damaging to his ego. Opinion | Is Trump crazy — or calculating? His opponents have to decide. 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Steinberg called America’s position on guns “one of the greatest signs of irrationality and sickness in our country.” Column: The Sacramento shooting again shows mass killers in our midst. The pandemic made it worse 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z We consider that the decision crosses the threshold of irrationality where it simply does not add up, or in other words there is an error of reasoning which robs the decision of logic. Bloody Sunday: High Court quashes decision to discontinue Soldier F case 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z A leader’s seeming irrationality might be his most compelling bargaining chip. Opinion | Distraught dictator or rational actor? With Putin and Ukraine, the evidence is chilling. 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z I understand my fears are not rational, and I know he doesn’t go in for irrationality. Opinion | My Husband and I Don’t Speak the Same Love Language 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The study by the agency Kroll “revealed a series of operations of considerable economic irrationality and, in short, unjustified payments, falsely justified payments or payments of disproportionate amounts,” Barcelona said on Tuesday. Barcelona hands ‘illicit’ actions of ex board to prosecutors 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Georgia again, and here comes the discussion, which might venture into irrationality on occasion, long a delight to all of us who have spent life addled with college football. Analysis | Another Alabama-Georgia showdown brings with it more fretting about college football domination 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Here are three examples from my series - Think with Pinker - of common irrationality traps and how to avoid them. Three ways to be more rational this year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z All I’m seeing in this proposal are spite and irrationality. Opinion | When will we deal with guns? 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Tens of millions of people exist in a right-wing echo chamber structured by conspiracy theory, anti-intellectualism, irrationality, hatred, and where authoritarianism is worshipped as a civic religion and personal identity. American democracy is on the treadmill of doom: How do we get off? 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z “It’s shocking how scientific logic is obfuscated by political irrationality,” Abarca says. Ecuadorian scientists face long prison sentences in politically charged case over COVID-19 tests 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Their supposed irrationality “licensed limitless violence against the inhabitants encountered, for it would always be their own fault.” Review | The surprisingly modern origins of ‘xenophobia’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z This agenda of magical irrationality should not be voted into authority over Seattle civic institutions. Nikkita Oliver’s approach bodes poorly for Seattle 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z “You know, who’s not against pure irrationality and killing people in the name of God?” Evangelical author declares atheism dead, argues science refutes unbelief 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z On the other hand, it was us who set the benchmarks of irrationality against which we can tease each other about committing fallacies. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z But the nature of his behaviors, the irrationality of his behaviors, the immaturity of his behaviors and the dangers brought about those behaviors were all quite predictable and in fact, were predicted. What happens to America's mental health under a second Trump administration? Very bad things 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z With seven words, Biden brought home the profound irrationality of our current governing system. Opinion | Thanks to McConnell, even Biden is losing faith in the filibuster 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Tyranny feeds on the irrationality of narcissistic myths and magical thinking, even though its ideology may be disguised as hyper-rationalism, as it was the case with Communism. Fascism is a mind-killer — and Trump's version is destroying Americans' grasp of reality 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Most people of faith oppose irrationality and killing in God’s name, he said, and so the “new atheists” merely “set up this ridiculous idea that faith and reason are, are at odds.” Evangelical author declares atheism dead, argues science refutes unbelief 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Certainly a lot of the forms of irrationality that are concerning us now have long been with us. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z “Because the law is one weapon — not the only weapon — but one weapon against tyranny, autocracy, irrationality.” Breyer on retirement and politics at the Supreme Court 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z No, who I am mad at is the willfully unvaccinated, people who, out of irrationality and often raw Republican tribalism, got us into this mess in the first place. It's OK to blame the unvaccinated — they are robbing the rest of us of our freedoms 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Or consider how Samantha Bee drives home Kendi's point in her bit, " What Are Conservatives Screaming About today?" where she dissects the irrationality of the critical race theory backlash. Why it's (almost) impossible to argue with the right 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z More than six months later, it’s evident that the forces of ignorance and irrationality are so strongly entrenched that no amount of scientific evidence and public exhortation will sway them. Opinion | Republicans are preventing America from reaching Biden’s vaccination goal 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z The discovery of the irrationality of √2 is credited to Pythagoras or one of his disciples, although we do not know whether the reasoning behind it was arithmetic or geometric. For Math Fans: Some Puzzles from Game of Life Creator John Conway 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Racism often leads to presumptions of reasonableness and good intentions when defendants and witnesses are white, and irrationality and ill intent when defendants, witnesses and even victims are black. Derek Chauvin trial: 3 questions America needs to ask about seeking racial justice in a court of law 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z It has become a bastion of irrationality, conspiracy mongering, racism, nativism and anti-scientific prejudices. Opinion | The GOP can’t be saved. Center-right voters need to become Biden Republicans. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z The crowd represented racism, anger, irrationality and even hate. Looking back at Ali vs. Frazier: 50 years since 'The Fight of the Century' 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Trump's movement is rooted in white rage and white irrationality. The right's hatred of AOC isn't just racism and sexism: It sums up the entire toxic Trump era 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The irrationality of their claim points to a defect in their motives. Opinion | The U.S. must punish sedition — or risk more of it 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z With inventory at the lowest amount he’s ever seen in Telluride and Mountain Village and prices climbing, the scene mirrors the irrationality of 2007, which preceded a collapse and record foreclosures. Coronavirus drives spike in sales of Colorado mountain homes 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z And surely any robotic weapons system is likely to be designed with some kind of override feature, which would be controlled by human operators, subject to all the normal human passions and irrationality. ‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z While irrationality and conspiratorial thinking exist on both the left and the right, the right in recent decades has been much more afflicted by an epidemic of “alternative facts.” Opinion | How can 42 percent of Americans still support the worst president in our history? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Then there are socialism’s inevitable irrationalities: State-owned banks favoring state-owned industries is one reason China’s debt burden is more than triple the size of China’s GDP. Opinion | Joe Biden needs a China narrative that refutes today’s political angst 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z His election in 2016 was an act of irrationality and folly by a powerful, noble and indispensable nation. Opinion | Every crisis America faces has been made worse by Trump 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Or, his perennial hunger for adulation drives him to irrationality. Opinion | Trump is gambling the health of the nation for his reelection 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z But it’s not just the high cost and growing number of uninsured that expose the irrationality of the current system. The pandemic has made the US healthcare crisis far more dire. We must fix the system | Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Their opponents saw the Corbyn and Sanders phenomena as mass irrationality and delusion, as flight from reality and an indulgence of impossible dreams. Corbyn and Sanders may have gone, but they have radically altered our politics | Owen Jones 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The latest comments were in marked contrast to the way he described his job 24 hours before, saying he was tired of interviewing disingenuous politicians and didn’t “value indulging irrationality, hyper-partisanship.” Chris Cuomo backpedals after trashing CNN gig: ‘I’ve never been more grateful’ 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z “I like doing this show, I like talking to you guys, but I don’t value indulging irrationality, hyper-partisanship, I don’t think it’s worth my time.” CNN's Chris Cuomo says he likes his multimillion dollar job, one day after trashing it 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z This is what is so peculiar about this pandemic, how it is exposing the irrationality of this system. A general strike could happen in the US. But what comes after could change everything 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z “More and more people, as a result of this crisis, see the dysfunctionality and the stupidity and the irrationality of the current system,” he said. ‘Am I on Camera?’ Joe Biden’s Foray Into Virtual Campaigning 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z American kids, when first introduced to art, are often attracted to the fierceness of Surrealist irrationality and the churning anxieties of Expressionist emotion. Review: Hammer Museum's 'Paul McCarthy: Head Space' draws a revelatory picture of L.A. artist 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “Politics is where rationality and irrationality meet. As well as passion.” In Paris, a Mathematician Confronts the Political Odds 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z A house of worship, a cathedral of sport, separated by a strand of highway, suddenly connected by the irrationality of happenstance. They Heard Kobe Bryant’s Helicopter Go Down. Then They Prayed. 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z In the context of the irrationality and harmfulness of capitalist production, it's the workers who are stepping up to impose rational and life-saving measures. A general strike could happen in the US. But what comes after could change everything 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Franks writes that, although the argument has sometimes been successful, it is based on the idea of female irrationality. How Far Can Abused Women Go to Protect Themselves? 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The rise of an explicit belief in irrationality like this one is troubling on many levels. ‘Gut Feelings’ Are Driving the Markets 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z As I noted in my analysis of Wednesday's hearing, being angry about Trump is far from a sign of irrationality. Right-wingers go full misogynist at impeachment witness Pamela Karlan 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z England, England, Julian Barnes’s 1998 satire on heritage and nationhood, ends with Britain being thrown out of the EU, having been so troublesome, negotiating “with such obstinate irrationality”, that it is eventually paid to leave. Julian Barnes: ‘Do you expect Europe to cut us a good deal? It’s so childish’ 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z People now don’t change their minds, they double down on their irrationality, and using facts, science and reason to contest the unreasonable is simply driving us all further apart. Documentary follows Pastafarians as they strain for recognition 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Alistair Burt, who was one of 21 MPs who lost the Tory whip after they rebelled against the party, said: "The Brexit obsession is giving rise to sheer irrationality." Rees-Mogg 'bullying Brexit whistleblowers' 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Efforts to educate about the irrationality of racist beliefs are dismissed as "political correctness." Republicans will never say that racism is "racism." Basically it's because they're racist 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z The ferocity of the smear against a fellow conservative was matched only by the irrationality of it. Opinion | Remember when conservatives believed no one was above the law? 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Judge Guido Calabresi wrote that a review of current law might find that it was once rational but “is now heading towards irrationality.” Judges: Feds must act if asked to take a fresh look at pot 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi wrote in the majority opinion that a review of current law might find that it was once rational but “is now heading towards irrationality.” Appeals ruling prods DEA to take a fresh look at marijuana 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But the resurgence of irrationality at a time when people should really know better is testing the faith that I have always had in government of, by and for the people. Opinion | Are we becoming too stupid to govern ourselves? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z They love him for his ignorance, boorishness, crudeness, anti-rationality, irrationality, the fact that he proudly does not read and other willful deficits of the intellect and mind. Trump and Ben Carson: King and court jester of the kakistocracy 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The Trump administration trots out its usual rationale for economic irrationality: Ex-Im is a “national security weapon.” Opinion | On this policy, Republicans are socialists. They just don’t want you to know. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z She questioned herself, with the irrationality of self-blame, about whether the assault could have been avoided if she had taken a different seat or headed home at a different time. Sexual harassment in public: A grad student experienced it, and then documented others’ stories, too 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Note that the irrationality of these beliefs is shared by any followers of Trump, who also apparently lack the drive to make the set of beliefs coherent with accepted beliefs. It's all a conspiracy! Have liberals succumbed to paranoid thinking on Trump, Russia and Mueller? 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z There has always been a peculiar irrationality to all the biological arguments that supposedly predetermine the inferior social status of women. The Radical Style of Andrea Dworkin 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The judge rejected sentencing arguments put forward by Pell’s defence team that if the offending had occurred, Pell must have experienced a moment of irrationality. Cardinal George Pell to spend nearly four years in jail for child sexual assault 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z An economist derided my attitude as typical left-wing irrationality. Revolt against the Rich 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Today, medical science and facts must be allowed to prevail over legislation based on panic and irrationality. Recent Missouri Editorials 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The Ministry of Justice said the challenge threshold would be similar to that of a High Court judicial review, which will focus on "illegality, irrationality and procedural unfairness". Worboys case sparks parole challenge change 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Graham O’Dwyer, a politics lecturer at Reading University with a specific interest in human irrationality, welcomed the study. Strongest opponents of GM foods know the least but think they know the most 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The irrationality of the attacks did not rattle Mr. Kelly’s faith in God, he said, but reinforced it. First Las Vegas, Then Thousand Oaks. Now He Must Survive in Afghanistan. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z “Growing up in the World War II period and the beginning of the Cold War, I was struck by the elements of emotion in politics, particularly irrationality,” he told the New York Times in 2000. Fred Greenstein, scholar of the American presidency, dies at 88 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Surely a portion of the fan base would support that position, no matter the irrationality of shunning peaceful protestors while embracing suspected woman beaters. Washington should come clean on not calling Colin Kaepernick 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Even if we tend to backslide to irrationality, that doesn’t mean we should indulge that when we are deliberating how to run a society. Steven Pinker Thinks the Future Is Looking Bright 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But, surprisingly, he is an eloquent admirer of certain forms of irrationality. Hope for the Great Apes, and Maybe for Us 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z “There was a lot of irrationality in terms of what was going on in tech and how that relates to data centers,” Gary Wojtaszek, chief executive officer at Dallas-based CyrusOne, said in an interview. Tech Selloff Trips Up Data Center Stocks 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Rent the Runway can’t be expected to solve the paralysis of choice or irrationality that plagues some of us; if anything, its future plans will exacerbate those tendencies. The Transformational Bliss of Borrowing Your Office Clothes 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The clamorous noise of the engines and the rattling motions of the aircraft remind you of the violent irrationality of human flight. Review: 'First Man,' starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, thrills, moves and perplexes - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z This explains their hostility to populism, which they associate with demagogy and irrationality. Populists are on the rise but this can be a moment for progressives too | Chantal Mouffe 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Yet, looked at coolly, much of this apparent irrationality reflects a reasonable reassessment of the value of children’s lives. I’m a paranoid parent – and proud of it | Catherine Shoard 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Mr Gruber argues that, once you allow for even a sliver of irrationality in human decision-making, the case for taxing addictive substances becomes clear. “Sin” taxes—eg, on tobacco—are less efficient than they look 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Yet the study’s ethos resurfaces in behavioural economics, through nudges that, without consent, shape the many in the mould of the few — supposedly ‘saving’ us from some inherent irrationality. Summer reads: Darwin’s dilemma on sexual selection, ecology versus empire, and the dark side of the greater good 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z But the increasing irrationality of U.S. policy and the troubling Putin-Trump alliance should be a clear wake-up call even to the biggest German doubters on the defense issue. A rare case: On NATO, Trump is right 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z “The irrationality of the debate on the details of Brexit is truly chilling.” Another Exhausting, Agonizing Week of Brexit 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z It is also a mild reaction relative to the sheer irrationality of the president’s increasingly unmoored trade policy. Opinion | Canada has every right to be insulted 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Convention may contribute to Esther’s insanity, but she never loses her awareness of the irrationality of convention. Reading “The Bell Jar” in 1971 1971-07-03T04:00:00Z Mostly male medical professionals once diagnosed “female problems,” including hysteria, fainting spells and chronic irrationality. Conversion Therapy Isn’t the Cure for ‘Toxic Masculinity’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z It is just as likely that irresponsibility and irrationality become something that people vote for, not something that they reject. Opinion | Watch what happens in Rome. It could be our post-Trump future. 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z “With irrationality, you can deploy physical contact, touching.” Emmanuel Macron’s Bromance With Trump Takes Its Toll at Home 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z As usual, the prognostications fail to account for the irrationality of consumers and human behavior. U.S. Economy Grew by 2.3% in First Quarter, Easing Slightly 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Speculative bubbles are hard to model—how to find a rational way to assess irrationality? Catching the bitcoin bug 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z These are all values profoundly antithetical to American values of bigotry, religious superstition, and irrationality. Trump v. California: The Biggest Legal Clashes 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The irrationality of this kind of thinking is a frightening display of the lower mentality and lack of true intelligence of these people. Trump Suggests Teachers Get a ‘Bit of a Bonus’ to Carry Guns 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Both eras show that science and evidence-based thinking do not necessarily triumph over irrationality and ideology. The limitations of Steven Pinker’s optimism 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Good to see GOP lawmakers rejecting Trump’s irrationality and cruelty. Senate Rejects Immigration Plans, Leaving Fate of Dreamers Uncertain 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z I did that recently and in the process gained fresh appreciation for the vicious vortex of irrationality that is sucking in the Republican Party. Opinion | A vicious vortex of irrationality is sucking in the Republican Party 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z “The irrationality is enough to make your mind spin,” Mr. Klein said. He Took a Drug to Prevent AIDS. Then He Couldn’t Get Disability Insurance. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z That once again underscores the irrationality of not having laws that try to keep guns out of children’s hands by requiring responsible and safe storage. Opinion | Keeping guns out of children’s hands should not be this hard 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Is it any wonder this kind of irrationality leads to less than desirable behavior? The Eagles Crushed Vikings Fans’ Hopes. Now They’re Crashing Their Super Bowl Party. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z A year later our country is alone, isolated, mistrusted, mocked for the ignorance and irrationality of our leaders. Our Coastlines Are Eroding, Along with Our Democratic Norms and Institutions 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Once you have embraced irrationality, alas, it may be impossible to find your way back to the land of logic. Opinion | A vicious vortex of irrationality is sucking in the Republican Party 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z When one reads the reader comments here, the complete irrationality of the left explains why we got Trumped. Trump Administration Says States May Impose Work Requirements for Medicaid 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z “There are more important problems today, with irrationality in North Korea, in Washington and Jerusalem. His thought is, essentially, ‘Let’s preach moderation, common sense and intelligence.’ Emmanuel Macron speaks to the world. But what about the French? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Bolden said his critics demonstrate the irrationality of racism — in disputing his contention that racism still exists, even for a successful African American, they pelted him with racial slurs. In debate over national anthem, black wealth becomes a target 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Corporatized, professionalized and polarized to the point of irrationality, Congress seemed at war over even the most minor problems. Democracy’s in an emergency, but people are rushing to help 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Some in the music business see this as the height of irrationality. Why Surge Prices Make Us So Mad: What Springsteen, Home Depot, and a Nobel Winner Know 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z But Thaler et al were only scratching the surface of our irrationality. Using groupthink for the greater good 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z But Thaler et al. were only scratching the surface of our irrationality. Opinion | The Art of Thinking Well 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Today, billions of dollars are staked by fund managers who use his insights to try to profit from the biases he helped expose—and yet irrationality still hasn’t been arbitraged away. Why Richard Thaler Matters to Investors 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z “They are very dangerous leaders that think they are exercising nuclear deterrence but in their irrationality are actually risking nuclear war.” The world has nearly 15,000 nuclear weapons. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize honors the quest to abolish all of them. 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z This looks like irrationality in action, bound to end in tears. Manias, panics and Initial Coin Offerings 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z He added: “When fear grows, irrationality grows. That is at the heart of this new right-wing phenomenon.” Far-Right Gains Leave Germans Wondering, What Now? 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Sadly this aspect of humanity is more often eclipsed by irrationality. What does a portrait of Erica the android tell us about being human? 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Both Reed and Collins have, quite rationally, softened their hot-mic conversation about Trump’s irrationality. Opinion | What do we do if Trump really is crazy? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The advocates of missile defense system for the United States cite Kim’s alleged irrationality as justification for building an expensive weapons system that fails as often as it succeeds. Trump is on course to get a hot war going with North Korea 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z In men, such intensity is read as effectiveness; in women, it’s seen as irrationality. Opinion | If women talked more, the Senate and Uber might not be so messed up 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The claim that most of us suffer from various forms of implicit bias is all of a piece with the explosion of research into the irrationality of our reasoning, decisions and beliefs. Implicit bias: Is everyone racist? - BBC News 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Something similar may be happening in the other direction as members of the anti-Trump right, battling against immoderation, irrationality and irresponsibility, become ever more distant from their old allies. Opinion | The anti-Trump right is becoming a breed of its own 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Focusing on behavioral economics at Cal, he wrote a paper using baseball card collectors as a window into irrationality. The architect: How Dodgers GM Farhan Zaidi became one of the most coveted minds in baseball 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z But both types of contexts must deal with the constraints of regulatory irrationality. Opinion | The dog problem 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z “You have seen different forms of irrationality coming back.” The U.N.’s new leader is taking on an impossible job 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Last year, Commissioner Rob Manfred said the dispute was about “the irrationality of the application of traditional workplace overtime rules to minor league baseball players.” After 58 Seconds on Court, Cavaliers’ Bogut Will Miss Rest of Season 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “I don’t think people who don’t have firsthand experience with the irrationality of federal intervention understand what a threat we are facing.” Trump's Justice Department may crack down on thriving pot industry, but is it too big to jail? 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Years later, I recognized the expression on my teacher’s face as one of profound frustration with perceived irrationality. Donald Trump Through a Loudspeaker, Darkly 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z But what's happened in recent years is that Right Wing media and its contentious writers have made a lucrative market out of disgruntled voters' irrationality; Trump arose from this sordid concoction. Make China Great Again 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z However, few would accuse him of irrationality when he admitted last week that receiving the nuclear codes was “very, very, very scary”. Should Donald Trump's access to nuclear weapons be restricted? 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z However, since the Brexit vote, Europeans suspect endearing eccentricity has morphed into unpredictable irrationality. Brexit: Berlin business leaders unimpressed with UK's message - BBC News 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Lacing his presentation, his last to jurors before sentencing, with words like “delusional,” “abnormal” and “irrationality,” Mr. Bruck portrayed Mr. Roof as a loner with no meaningful relationships. Dylann Roof, Addressing Court, Offers No Apology or Explanation for Massacre 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Bruck seeded his speech with words like “abnormal,” “irrationality,” “senselessness,” “delusional,” “obsession” and “perseveration,” a psychiatric term referring to the uncontrollable repetition of a particular response. Dylann Roof Himself Rejects Best Defense Against Execution 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Kelly could reject the bigotry and irrationality of these proposals, and senators at his confirmation hearing should call on him to do so. What U.S. Muslims fear from Trump 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Roof’s lawyer, while acknowledging his client’s guilt, then did his best to persuade jurors to consider the gunman’s mental state, peppering his own closing argument with words like “irrationality,” “delusional” and “obsession.” Dylann Roof Jurors Hear Condemnation, and a Plea for Mercy 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Charismatic authority revels in the glamour and irrationality of visual images, just as it revels in emotion, stridency, fear and loathing. The unholy power of that Farage-Trump buddy photo | Jonathan Jones 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z “Comparing candidate Trump with Commander Chavez is an expression of the racist arrogance and irrationality of a party that does not serve its constituents.” What the World Thinks About the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z But I also recognize the dizzying irrationality of some supposedly liberal discourse in academia these days. My Halloween email led to a campus firestorm — and a troubling lesson about self-censorship 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z This is a counterfactual election, its basis is irrationality not rationality. Obama’s Trickle-Up Economics 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Players agreed that the most absurd tweets, while disturbing in their own way, are easier to dismiss because of their irrationality. ‘Bryce is worse than Hitler’: How Nationals navigate a social media minefield 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z In some ways, this is more dangerous than irrationality. North Korea, Far From Crazy, Is All Too Rational 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z I can certainly claim to my share of irrationality but when I heard this, it seemed to me a new level of bizarreness. The Obama years: novelists assess his legacy 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z The list of books runs a gamut from cognitive issues to the irrationality of crowds to how and why a quantitative approach to investing has risen to dominance. A reading list that yields a solid return on investment 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z But that, they note, is what insurance is supposed to do: “The insistence that only ‘comprehensive’ insurance coverage is really insurance…encourages a great deal of economic irrationality.” The Unstable Economics in Obama’s Health Law 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Good to see that irrationality is alive and well in Maryland. Drink to Your Health (in Moderation), the Science Says 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z In the “strong” form of irrationality, leaders are so deranged that they are incapable of judging their own interests. North Korea, Far From Crazy, Is All Too Rational 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z What Wilson has produced is not a serious analysis but an example of irrationality induced by loss aversion. The Trump Panic 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Particular legal theories aside, we ourselves support the BFA effort because it cuts to the core of the irrationality and arbitrariness of existing ballot-access laws. The Real Reason You Can't Vote for an Independent Candidate 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The fear defense, when it is offered by shooters, uses emotion and irrationality as a shield, to deflect attention from the bias beneath. Police Shootings, Race, and the Fear Defense 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Trump, like ISIS, is really a symbol of this irrationality. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Trump and ISIS Depend on Irrationality 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z His audience was surprisingly sophisticated, and, for all the time that he devoted to celestial voyagers, an underlying theme was the irrationality, and susceptibility to conspiracy theory, that has always been part of American life. Donald Trump and the Legacy of Long John Nebel 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z After the 2008 crisis, it became a cliché to lament the irrationality of financial traders and to point sagely at the human biases that behavioral economists identified back in the 1970s. The Hail Mary gamble of voting for Trump 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z "We're particularly delighted the court highlights the irrationality of a rule that bars broadcast/newspaper combinations in the same market," Wharton said. Court strikes down U.S. FCC broadcaster sales rules 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z But government interference in the free market adds a third, perverse, diseased, deranged machine into the process, and irrationality becomes the standard. The Miserable French Workplace 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z If this sounds slightly over the top, it’s nevertheless of a piece with what Skidelsky admits: There is “something unfathomable about the whole business of being a fan . . . in its self-evident irrationality.” A fan’s love affair with Roger Federer 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z There is also the irrationality of glitz and aura and living with fickle consumers, as Brian Chen discusses in his story on Fitbit. Sometimes in Tech, Glitz Trumps Reason 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z One thing is clear: the irrationality of U.S. farm subsidies, which skew the U.S. government’s options to begin with. America’s nutty farm subsidies cause damage at home and abroad 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z I agree entirely with them about the irrationality of fandom. Our own Mickey Mantle 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z It may even be necessary for Israel to consider, at least on occasion, feigning irrationality itself. Israel, Playing the Role of 'Mad Dog' 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z If this is an accurate reflection of his state of mind, then irrationality will rule his decisions and we will all suffer for it. Coming to grips with Donald Trump 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z But, while recognizing our own irrationalities, we don’t owe them a blind bending to theirs. France, Iran, and the Affair of the Lunch Wine 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z But in this choppy world economy it would be foolhardy to ignore one of the main forces driving financial flows through history: irrationality. The Dollar Keeps Rising, for Good or Evil 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z But after Tuesday, when the former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, endorsed Trump, we wonder if we will ever climb our way out of this bottomless well of irrationality and buffoonery. Editorials from around New England 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z "We are really in the realm of irrationality." Forget the glut, oil enters irrational territory 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Opponents of detente with Iran assume an irrationality and desperation that precludes fruitful discourse. Donald Trump, god of rage: The decline of White America & the rise of an American strongman 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z This is a story in which Keynes’s “animal spirits” are depressed, but it isn’t necessarily about individual irrationality. What Is the Post-Post-Davos Model of the World? 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z “As a society we’re irrational about it, but government has to accept that irrationality rather than fight it,” she said. Balancing Terror and Reality in State of the Union Address 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Iran’s state news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying it “proves nothing but the depth of irrationality and irresponsibility of the Saudi officials.” Saudi Arabia Executes Prominent Shiite Cleric Nemer al-Nemer 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z They ignore it because they want all that firepower close at hand when that battlefield arrives; their irrationality on dress parade here. End the Gun Epidemic in America 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The House is counting on political cowardice and bureaucratic indifference to advance the cause of irrationality and bigotry. Our Betrayal of Syrian and Iraqi Refugees 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z This irrationality is mirrored in the UK, where refugees cannot seek asylum from outside the country, but are prevented from entering by the UK government. 'Dismantle Europe's borders': Pussy Riot speak up for refugees 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z In the best outcome, Kerry will capitulate, push beyond the irrationality of the U.S. negotiating stance and ease Americans into a deal wherein Assad stays until Syrians are given the opportunity to express themselves. Judy Miller’s ghost lingers: Putin, Syria and how the New York Times cheers on a new Cold War 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Silicon Valley may have become known as a land of exuberance and innovation — or one of irrationality as companies pursue the future. Major Investors on Start-Up Issues and Women’s Speech Patterns 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z During a 1993 power struggle, Mr. Carto’s onetime subordinates at the Institute for Historical Review accused him of “harebrained schemes, mismanagement, insults and irrationality” as they sought to oust him from the institute. Willis Carto, influential figure of the far right, dies at 89 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s not just Congress that fails to respond after another massacre briefly focuses attention on the irrationality and permissiveness of our country’s firearms statutes. It’s time to hold America’s gunmakers accountable 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z For example, 85% of the benefits of recent increases in light vehicle fuel efficiency standards are justified by this “consumer irrationality,” according to Kip Viscusi of Vanderbilt University and Ted Gayer of the Brookings Institution. Critics of Free Market Shouldn’t Overreach 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z He admonished those who claimed that the opinions of the public are rooted in irrationality, illogic or a lack of information. Andy Kohut, a rare Washington figure 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z But who could have guessed that irrationality was a winning political platform? Donald Trump’s biggest crime is his honesty: How he exposes the sickening rot at the core of the GOP 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z I would say the main distinction is between common sense and irrationality, between who is responsible and irresponsible, who is European or not. Greece closes in on third bailout deal - live updates 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z This irrationality is of more than academic interest when we actually forego potential gains that would exceed our losses. Balancing Hopes and Fears in the Middle East 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z "There's an irrationality which is fun to play with as a musician," he says. Proms: Pianist's 'intense' relationship with Beethoven - BBC News 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Watson ended the show by introducing the title song from “Call Me Insane,” a steel-guitar-reinforced confession of irrationality in his pursuit of an elusive woman. Dale Watson brings his brand of Texas honky-tonk music to the Birchmere 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z “Just last week, we witnessed the irrationality of violence,” he said, apparently referring to the massacre in Charleston, S.C. Victims of accused Alexandria killer may have been chosen at random 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z I would say the main distinction is between common sense and irrationality, between who is responsible and irresponsible, who is European or not. Greece closes in on third bailout deal - live updates 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z So far I’ve done interviews with 22 experts on various fields from happiness, to expertise, to influence and irrationality. Top Experts Always Recommend These 4 Books 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z These regulations are based on a flawed assumption that failure to save a trivial amount over more than a decade is proof of consumers' irrationality. DOE's Proposed Energy Efficiency Standards Are Anything but Rational 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z “That irrationality leads to the buying and selling at the wrong time which leads to underperformance.” How To Avoid Investor Traps And Invest During Turbulent Times 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Then reflect on the process and try to see the irrationality of your fears. Breaking the Silence: How I Conquered Selective Mutism 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z This is a time to remind ourselves of the power of irrationality. Rabbi: Iran's Anti-Semitism Can't Be Reasoned With 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Historical analysis suggests that developers are prone to bouts of irrationality. Towers of Babel 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z “But honestly, I never expected the venom and the irrationality.” Sweet Briar’s Imminent Closing Stirs Small Uprising in a College Idyll 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z That Spock, the pointy-eared half-Vulcan who viewed human irrationality and passion with humor, disdain and occasionally envy proved the most durable is a testament to the performance of Leonard Nimoy, who died today at 83. Leonard Nimoy's Spock With Us Still in the White House and Silicon Valley 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z You can’t spend decades encouraging irrationality and ignorance, then declare a return to sanity when it’s convenient. Threats to Homeland Security 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Perhaps most importantly, the story explodes the comforting myth that science offers insulation against profound irrationality and extremism. How 2 Pro-Nazi Nobelists Attacked Einstein’s "Jewish Science" 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The political spectrum of presidential campaigning in the United States certainly took a turn this week toward irrationality, pandering and thoughtless comments. A sampling of editorials from around New York 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The irrationality of the purchases might have been clear enough. Snowpocalypse in the White Queen’s Kingdom 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z There are too many shades and expressions of personal identity, too many internal irrationalities and inconsistencies, too many secrets and whispers and emotional baggage for an algorithm to encode. The year the world turned on Facebook 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z In the end, the irrationality is all about race and a black President, who's name happens to be Obama. Obama’s Immigration Move Benefits Democrats Where It Counts 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Thaler took mental note of the moment, one of many notes on human irrationality that he would gather in the ensuing years. The Business of Behavior Change Via Self-Punishment 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Modernization’s strategy of planned obsolescence, entrepreneurs’ insistence on incessant innovation, and modernism’s dedication to making it new intersect in the world of contemporary fashion to expose the irrationality and inefficiency of today’s markets. Fast, cheap and out of control: How hyper-consumerism drives us mad 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Consequently, if the premise of a study is to look at something like the “denial of the irrationality of many religious beliefs,” turn it around to be “the denial of the benefits of church attendance.” Is the Field of Psychology Biased Against Conservatives? 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z However one rationalises the slide into irrationality, what is happening in Australia is not unique. An apology from Australia to the rest of the world is now warranted 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Human judgement is often clouded by irrationality, emotion and imperfect knowledge. Could a machine be your boss one day? 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z This sort of behavior goes well beyond the incentive problems and the “rational irrationality” I describe in my book. Why Didn’t Eric Holder Go After the Bankers? 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z A fleeting moment of irrationality, no doubt the result of constantly being home alone and avoiding filling in more applications. Lonely potato syndrome: how I invented a mental disorder 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z What worries me most is the irrationality of certain interest groups preventing society from addressing the problem. Forecasts: Hopes and Fears About Climate Change 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Legislative success is measured by the absence of complete irrationality — breaching the debt ceiling, hurtling over the fiscal cliff. Two ideas that could overcome political gridlock Further, each of the loans at issue was subject to substantial due diligence and an approval process that defies a finding of irrationality.” In Ruling That Favors Failed Bank, Promises Meant Little 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z “The stuff was already irrationality in motion,” said Mr. Moustafa, “Then a guy actually named McCain joins ISIS. It added fuel to the fire.” Try as He May, John McCain Can’t Shake Falsehoods About Ties to ISIS 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z A recent study by Ted Gayer of the Brookings Institution and W. Kip Viscusi of Vanderbilt University looked into this implied irrationality of consumers. Who Is More Irrational - Consumers or Regulators? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Such irrationality costs money: the daily returns of the most superstitious quintile of investors were 0.03% lower than the least superstitious on trades ending in an eight. Black-cat market 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z A. A lot of things start with my own irrationalities and my own problems in life. Dan Ariely wants to help manage your time But this was not quite the humane consideration it might seem, for Armstrong held that “prominent African American cultural traits included sloth, emotionality, irrationality, and immorality.” Lulled Into Relatability With a sarcastic, biting tone, Mr. Nakasa tore into the irrationality of apartheid. After Decades in Exile, a South African Writer’s Remains Will Head Home 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Some investors say they already see signs of irrationality. Stampede of Mergers Could Mean Growth, or Irrationality, Ahead 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Cahun, with Moore, explored the irrationality of dream narratives, the limitations of realism, and the insights of the subconscious. Me, Myself and I: Exploring Identity Through Self Portraits 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Many regard science as the supreme embodiment of human reason, but science may yet confirm what history so strongly suggests - irrationality is hard-wired in the human animal. The child-like faith in reason 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The dismissal once again exposed the irrationality of India's opposition to the decision review system. England must 'kick down door' to stop rot 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z As much as I have endeavored to understand your deeds, a certain irrationality still puzzles me. An open letter to vandals Football, and sport in general, represents an opportunity to build a better version of a world too often threatened by irrationality, intolerance and violence. The Power Of Football To Unite, Despite Rivalries 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z It is tempting to see the former as more moral and ethical, but their irrationality and persuasiveness is more likely to harm others. The Business of Lying (or Fooling Others to Remain Honest to Yourself) 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Google is, par excellence – and to a degree rarely seen in industry – an engineering company, and engineers dislike the untidy irrationality of real life. Will Google's self-driving pods spell the end of the road for car ownership? 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z The emails referred to women in derogatory terms and also contained sexual innuendos and jokes about "female irrationality". Premier League meets over sexism row 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The emails referred to women in derogatory terms, contained sexual innuendos, and made jokes about "female irrationality". Premier League 'treats staff fairly' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Then there is a mention of "female irrationality" – though not in reference to a decision taken by a woman running the line at one of his product's games the previous weekend. Premier League's Richard Scudamore proved himself a hypocrite years ago 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z That inherent irrationality at the heart of humanity’s sense of exceptionalism is what most worries Wise. Should a Chimp Be Able to Sue Its Owner? 2014-04-23T09:00:54Z While maths is more precise, words might allow you to express and engage with complex ideas that are tricky to model - things like uncertainty, irrationality, and exuberance. Did Hyman Minsky find the secret behind financial crashes? 2014-03-24T01:14:46Z But in the aftermath of the tragedy in Newtown, the revelation that Adam had been diagnosed with Asperger’s and the horrible irrationality of gunning down 26 strangers at his former elementary school were inevitably linked. Adam Lanza’s Violence Wasn’t Typical of Asperger’s 2014-03-11T16:04:50Z “A lot of the things we identify as problematic with the delivery of care are simply features of the irrationality of the system itself,” Gladwell lamented. Malcolm Gladwell On American Health Care: An Interview 2014-03-06T18:00:00Z Can you say the same about your irrationality? Sketch Guy: Why a Fed Governor Bought a Home When He Knew the Market Was Teetering 2014-02-24T19:09:38Z Liliya Shevtsova, a senior associate at a Moscow public policy research centre, are "an embodiment of corruption, inefficiency, irrationality, extreme vanity and megalomania". Sochi prepares for opening ceremony 2014-02-06T23:00:14Z "The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values," Bennett wrote on his Facebook page. Netanyahu would let Israeli settlers live in future Palestine: report 2014-01-26T22:42:50Z A broader notion of irrationality may someday be reconciled with one of rationality, and account for actual human behavior. Economic View: The Rationality Debate, Simmering in Stockholm 2014-01-18T15:31:04Z Leaving aside the short-term irrationality that is the market, the fundamentals look strong. LIVE: Tesla Beats Expectations On Record Sales, Investors Decide To Sell Anyway 2013-11-05T22:36:00Z "The febrile heat, hatred, irrationality and prejudice provoked by last week's row reveals why politicians must not be allowed anywhere near press regulation." Papers consider next regulation move 2013-10-12T03:16:02Z Mr Obama frequently expresses dismay over the irrationality or hypocrisy of opponents. Lexington: Hey! Hey! LBJ! 2013-09-26T15:05:59Z He later explained in his memoirs that the “irrationality of Middle Eastern politics forced us to rethink our policy.” Letter From Washington: Obama's Red Line Comes Back to Haunt Him 2013-09-01T16:03:07Z And I also seek to inject the element of irrationality into our understanding of obsession. A Country Built By Obsessives 2013-08-06T11:15:00.580Z If irrationality put him back on bike in Assen, now he is more rational. Lorenzo has heavy crash in Germany 2013-07-12T15:11:09Z I heard Brian Kobilka, Harry Kroto and others talk about the increasing lack of focus on basic research, about basic science education and the march of irrationality. Lindau 2013: All our hopes and fears: Why we need psychologists at Lindau 2013-07-09T15:45:00.567Z Now that Oliver’s in the anchor chair, he’s had to transition from the voice of irrationality to the voice of reason. How the New Daily Show Host Compares to Jon Stewart 2013-06-13T20:35:27Z Safety is now almost as big an industry as defence, and as dependent on irrationality for its sustenance. From Greenland to Mount Everest, this is the season of reckless jaunts 2013-05-02T20:00:03Z Conversations about the practical impossibility of God’s existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia over Muslim immigration or the practice of veiling. Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia 2013-03-30T19:00:00Z A particularly egregious example of irrationality in player contracts is the goal bonus. With football transfers, two heads plus data are better than a manager alone 2013-03-01T14:10:00Z “We envision a future in which nontheistic students are respected voices in public discourse and vital partners in the secular movement’s charge against irrationality and dogma.” Atheist group wants recognition in Christian school 2013-02-27T15:43:00Z "This study shows there's a lot of irrationality in how we treat patients," said Brawley, who was not involved in the new work. "Irrational" factors may drive end of life access to radiation 2012-11-21T22:05:50Z In my interview with Obama two weeks ago, the President hinted at the coming strategy, casting it as a choice between rationality and irrationality. The Obama Campaign Claims Ownership of Truth 2012-09-04T20:05:21Z But Mr. Patton said Professor Fisher recognized and relished the “complexity and irrationality” of the situations he addressed. Roger D. Fisher, Expert in ‘Getting to Yes,’ Dies at 90 2012-08-28T02:38:18Z True enough, which is why science and reason must always prevail over fear and irrationality, and conspiracy mongering traffics in the latter at the expense of the former. Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories 2012-08-18T04:15:16.603Z But is this sort of cultural polarization evidence of irrationality? Why we are poles apart on climate change 2012-08-15T17:20:06.330Z “There is some irrationality to the market,” he said. Bond Traders Deal in High Expectations, and Fear 2012-08-04T01:37:34Z In my Scientific American column this month, I wrote about the irrationality of the Transportation Security Administration's rules that govern air travel. Air Onlines: 5 Apps to Make Air Travel Sane 2012-06-26T12:15:04.207Z He does a lot of work about the reality of human thinking, particularly its fundamental “irrationality.” Do Liars Really Have Different Brains? 2012-06-11T20:16:06Z While this analogy is not very appropriate, it does figuratively highlight the irrationality of Chinese consumer attitudes towards Apple products. Why Are Chinese Consumers Crazy For Apple? 2012-06-11T13:06:33Z “There is something wonderful to me about the contrast between the rational mathematics of a string quartet and the irrationality of this particular play world,” Ms. Ruhl said. ArtsBeat: Playwrights' Collective to Disband After Production of Ruhl Work 2012-06-07T17:58:21Z Times are tough, the challenges are great and we respond by cheering an aspect of our culture that, for all its irrationality, is uniquely ours. Why do we love our monarchy? 2012-05-29T01:45:40Z A good deal of mismanagement took place in a large number of euro zone members – whether the fiscal irrationality of Greece or the housing fiasco of Spain. The Future of the Euro: Why Sentiment Alone Can?t Save the Union 2012-04-30T09:45:55Z The crux of the problem, as Cowen points out, is that it’s nearly impossible to understand irrationalities without taking advantage of them. The Irrationality of Irrationality: The Paradox of Popular Psychology 2012-04-27T15:15:03.580Z "Innovation is an irrational act, and the only way to get through that irrationality is to surround yourself with other people as crazy and obsessed with changing the world as you are." Ex-Facebook insiders building next wave of Silicon Valley firms 2012-04-07T02:05:00Z Of course the old traditional notion of Henry, the simple idea which set him down as a monster of lust and cruelty, would soon expose its irrationality to a mind like that of Froude. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Shall these, in short, stop me from exposing the irrationalities which I see everywhere around me, and which occasion so much misery and unhappiness to my fellow-men? The Trial of Henry Hetherington 2012-03-06T03:00:21.680Z It is evident that the irrationality of frequent appeals to expensive and bothersome litigation should arouse suspicion. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The business of American professional sports is built around our irrationality. Why we shouldn't feel guilty about stealing another city's team 2012-02-14T05:04:09Z "I'm glad to be here, a thousand miles away from the irrationality zone." Ed Weiler Says He Quit NASA Over Cuts to Mars Program 2012-02-09T18:50:02Z "There is no room in business for irrationality over the long term." Coca-Cola beats Street, eyes cost savings 2012-02-08T00:28:19Z And he sees human irrationality as part of the same monstrous, destructive force that is now threatening us as much as it is the mackerel. Is Eating Sustainable, Non-Farmed Seafood Enough? 2011-11-30T05:40:00Z There are, however, certain signs of irrationality not difficult to detect if the previous life of the individual be carefully scrutinised and these must form the ultimate criterion as to criminal responsibility. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z So Ken Rosenthal of Foxsports.com is among those flabbergasted by the irrationality of it. Leading Off: The Tigers? Confounding Royalty Payment to Prince Fielder ? Leading Off 2012-01-25T14:43:37Z The numbers themselves by which the tones are expressed have inextricable irrationality. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z If we summarize all this, we have a quantity of concessions by the formal epistemological rationalism to the irrationality of the psychological facts and a repeated breaking down of the over-rigorous Kantian rationalism. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z "It is extremely important that the massive movements we are experiencing today do not happen at the level of irrationality or mere emotion," he said. Analysis:Catholics, Muslims pursue dialogue amid Mideast tension 2011-11-25T18:36:20Z Is he celebrating Enlightenment reason, or Romantic irrationality? | Long Island: Goya?s Etchings of a Dark and Complicated Past 2011-10-29T05:48:04Z For it is certain that human irrationality — including misreading of foreign cultures — is a major contributor to war, crime and poverty. Letters: How Do You Say (2 Letters) 2011-10-17T22:05:52Z No Oxonian conductor could avert that stroke, which was not at mere irrationalities, but at a huge idol worshipped with human sacrifices. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z This alone will overcome the irrationality of an inequitable levy upon the more sympathetic, and the fluctuations of disproportionate relief. Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster 2011-10-02T02:00:12.020Z From a lower point of view than that of the author, she lacks several of the desirable feminine qualities,—a certain womanly warmth and petulance, a graceful irrationality. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Others, armed with brain scans, contend that celebrities touch our romantic selves, so that our irrationality around them is much like our irrationality around our loved ones. Baseball, Tim Pawlenty and Celebrity Politics: Stephen L. Carter 2011-08-18T00:24:01Z In this scope, perhaps it could be said that irrationality is an attempt to "mask" selfishness, for few who act toward the benefit of humanity will inflict upon it needless pain. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z We want to enjoy these essence-free products, but without the irrationality of consuming bad things or accepting the spontaneous and unpredictable nature of emotions and feelings. Online dating is eroding humanity 2011-07-25T11:30:01Z Opponents “failed to demonstrate that the agency’s listing determination rises to the level of irrationality,” Sullivan wrote. Polar Bear’s Listing as Threatened Species Upheld by Judge 2011-06-30T21:33:14Z This irrationality, however, is nearly always functional and passing, not of the kind that makes the commission of suicide inevitable, but only produces a tendency to it. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z In November he suffered a complete breakdown and went on medication to help him stay calm and fight off irrationality. Jim Cramer Hits an All-Time High 2011-05-12T03:30:00Z Communication's effect on adversity is that of purification, for conversation purges minds of fear and lonliness and gradually filters irrationality from one's thoughts into non-existence. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z I want to see what level of irrationality they have reached. Ugandan opposition leader detained for fourth time 2011-04-28T15:39:26Z Judicial reviews allow bodies to challenge decisions on grounds of illegality, irrationality and unfairness. Spurs in 2012 stadium court fight 2011-03-30T12:19:07Z But this is about irreducible irrationality, if you like. At U.S. Nuclear Sites, Preparing for the Unlikely 2011-03-28T16:27:46Z If we’re stuck with sitting in our cultural silos, and there’s no way around that, then how do concerned practitioners, communicators, planners work with that to soften the costs attending irrationality and polarization? Dot Earth: 'Warning Whiplash' With Radiation in the News 2011-03-24T19:55:32Z But existing institutions are hard-wired to avoid irrationality at all costs. Is Digital Utopianism Dead? 2011-03-10T07:14:14Z They have no fear of sounding ridiculous; your ordinary citizen's distaste for apparently absurd ideas is just an example of irrational bias, and Singularitarians have no truck with irrationality. 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal 2011-02-10T07:45:00Z He warned that if dialogue with the protesters failed, the alternative was "that a coup happens, which would mean uncalculated and hasty steps, including lots of irrationalities". White House raises Egypt pressure 2011-02-10T00:03:06Z However, he warned that if dialogue with the protesters failed, the alternative was "that a coup happens, which would mean uncalculated and hasty steps, including lots of irrationalities". Egypt protesters keep up pressure 2011-02-09T12:53:20Z “And we want to avoid that — meaning uncalculated and hasty steps that produce more irrationality,” he said, according to the official news agency. As Egypt Protest Swells, U.S. Sends Specific Demands 2011-02-09T11:10:05Z If those are grounded in a bit of irrationality, so be it—our business is about our customers, which means we need to meet them where they are, not where we think they should be. The ABCs of Pricing 2011-01-31T17:05:00Z Dan Ariely, that tireless student of human irrationality, has collected interesting precommitment anecdotes from regular people, including one who placed her credit card in a container of water in the freezer. 'Precommitment' devices as a safeguard against failure 2011-01-29T22:19:00Z Like Hobbes, those who today decry the irrationality of the tax code and advocate fundamental reform are ignored by elected officials. Slow-Growth U.S. Now Ripe for Consumption Tax: Kevin Hassett 2011-01-24T02:41:43Z Alex, Brookfield Yes, there is a fan in fanatic, which is why irrationality, er, I mean, passion is allowed and your comment is printed even though you didn't ask a question. Bulls mailbag: Thomas' minutes, Rose vs. Rondo 2011-01-14T00:35:00Z The movie's concern is the power of irrationality, which can yield remarkable achievements at terrible costs. 'Harry Potter' and the Endless Ending 2010-11-19T09:15:00Z She gave birth to five more children, and her financial burden grew along with her husband’s irrationality. | Afghanistan: Studio Kabul 2010-10-22T23:15:00Z But there’s a good reason that human irrationality isn’t part of the standard economic models, and this gets to the dilemma of economics. The X Factor of Economics: People 2010-10-16T20:08:00Z “The End of Faith,” his blistering take-no-prisoners attack on the irrationality of religions, found him many fans and, not surprisingly, a great body of detractors. Science Knows Best 2010-10-01T15:45:00Z It’s not a matter of panic, it’s not a matter of irrationality. Weighing the Possibility of Bankruptcy for BP 2010-07-10T00:46:00Z “There is a lot of evidence of the predictable irrationality of human beings,” Malhotra says. Voter Madness 2010-07-07T15:20:00Z In the run-up to the 2010 midterm elections, we have already seen that the anti-Obama forces are expressing their disagreements with the Administration in terms far more personal than political, tinged with an apocalyptic irrationality. How Obama Haters May Help Democrats in Midterm Elections 2010-06-01T22:10:00Z In the run-up to the 2010 midterms we have already seen that the anti-Obama forces are expressing their disagreements with the administration in terms far more personal than political, tinged with an apocalyptic irrationality. How Obama's Bitter Enemies May Give Him a Boost 2010-06-01T08:50:00Z Ayurveda is based on myth, irrationality and deception. Why Prevention Must Be Part of Health Reform 2010-05-14T21:01:00Z Freedom of speech is a right, but this right is not befitting of irrationality. Pakistan's Facebook ban is not the answer 2010-05-22T07:00:00Z "Doing a startup is an act of irrationality—statistically, you're going to fail," says Anil Dash, a blogger and an architect of the Movable Type publishing system. Chaos Theory 2010-04-12T05:00:00Z All are victims of some form of irrationality — those imperceptible forces that often prompt our actions in the real world, the ones that are at odds with our ideals. 2010-01-14T21:18:00Z Albeit two questions have been engendered; First, how does one prepare or plan for irrationality? 2010-01-09T15:13:00Z How can we hope to explain the world, if our very first principle itself contains irrationalities? A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The irrationality of dispersion is well illustrated by C. Christiansen’s experiments on the dispersive properties of white powders. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" So freedom of the will consists in this that reason impels men to the right and irrationality to the left and according to this parallelogram of forces the true direction is that of the diagonal. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" Yet I think that few philosophers would deny that it is the very irrationality of the traditional dualism which makes a living monism of mind and body so desirable and so urgently sought after. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance With the very rationality of his irrationality he had beaten me completely out of the field, and I saw the folly of my undertaking in all its fulness. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. He had the brain of a man, without the emotions, without the sweet irrationality of men—and he knew what he missed. Robots of the World! Arise! This property is referred to as the “irrationality of dispersion.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" And on the other hand, the very irrationality of romantic love will tend to its gradual elimination as the human grows wiser and wiser. The Kempton-Wace Letters The desire for sexual variety is the ultimate cause of all sexual lapses and irrationalities. The Truth About Woman We do not believe that a stupidly unreasoning act should incite us to equally unreasoning reprisal, for we would then be as guilty of irrationality as you. Life Sentence When we are vexed by the seeming irrationality of some of our Congressmen, may we not explain it as due to the fact that they are thinking of the kind of men who elected them? The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Wonder has often been felt over the irrationality of the condition in which a single person exercises lordship over a great mass of others. Introduction to the Science of Sociology When there is a suspicion of irrationality in a person's conduct, and certain acts or speeches suggest insanity, the whole surroundings and the past life must be considered. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Their divine character and origin is attested in the minds of these people by their irrationality, by the fact that they have no human meaning. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy With that portion of detached curiosity he watched his mind functioning, darting frantically here and there for rational explanation, and momentarily taking refuge in irrationality. Eight Keys to Eden We said that any perfectly fluent and easy thought was devoid of the sentiment of irrationality. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Moreover, the personal consciousness in general appears quite incapable of rejecting the suggestion, even when the "ego" detects its irrationality. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Jake was striding rapidly now, his dark ugly face aflame with weird eagerness, my own heart pounding with alarm at the strangeness and the irrationality of the whole proceeding. Valley of the Croen In a word, it is the same with the irrationality as it is with the immorality of mythology: myths are the work and the product of the common consciousness. The Idea of God in Early Religions Much that is absurd is found in man's religion, but the Tibetan form of it seemed to me the very ne plus ultra of irrationality. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 If they are fated to be error, does not the bat's wing of irrationality still cast its shadow over the world? The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The selective effect of fashion, in spite of its irrationality and independently of the goodness or badness of its effect on interests, is a reflection on the intelligence of men. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Too often, indeed, Christians have proclaimed and have gloried in its supposed irrationality. Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 Plainly, then, those thinkers and writers who were painfully impressed by such impiety, who were acutely conscious that divine personality was irreconcilable with immorality and irrationality, had some other idea of God than the mythological. The Idea of God in Early Religions It would seem as if fashion never could take repose but in supreme irrationality. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 But machines could not hope to encompass all the irrationality of Man. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 The irrationality is that there is a third possibility which cannot be tested; the superior powers may not answer at all. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The great historical instance of the discovery of the relativity and irrationality of customary morality and the emergence of reflective standards of moral value is the Athenian period of Greek philosophy. Human Traits and their Social Significance James has told us that he has found it necessary to throw away "pure reason" and to assume an inherent "irrationality" in the system of things. The Complex Vision We can see how the human mind arrives by a perfectly rational process at all its later irrationalities. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge They seem like stray vestiges of that primordial irrationality, from which all our rationalities have been evolved. Memories and Studies All the entanglements that we meet with arise from the irrationality of ourselves or others. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success The Sophists pointed out with merciless perspicuity the welter, the confusion, the essential irrationality of current social and religious traditions and beliefs. Human Traits and their Social Significance With an irrationality, that seems at the same time terrible and beautiful, instinct moves straight to its goal. The Complex Vision Is not truth, where human impulses and irrationalities are concerned, derived from sources lying higher than the regions sacred to “Blue Books”? The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 Showing war's irrationality and horror is of no effect upon him. Memories and Studies So firmly has this become entrenched in the minds of men that the irrationalities which manifest themselves against such a conception make no impression. The Necessity of Atheism Part of this discrepancy is not to be set down to the evils men actually do so much as the irrationality and fanaticism of the codes which they have been taught to profess. Human Traits and their Social Significance Life, just because its deepest secret is not law, determined by fate, but personality struggling against fate, is always found to display a certain irrationality. The Complex Vision Significantly enough, the writers who argue in favour of the essential irrationality of savage conduct have none of them, I believe, any personal acquaintance with savages. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia Orthodoxy insists on doctrines whose irrationality in their current forms is such that they can never be a basis for the union of all men. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life But the quality of his moral comment on the age remains what I have said: a protest of the rationality of religion as against the increasing irrationality of mere Victorian comfort and compromise. The Victorian Age in Literature It was as if he besought, with the irrationality of grief, those only friends he fairly knew for help and sympathy. Madelon A Novel And the complex vision becomes false to itself as soon as it loses touch with this world-deep irrationality. The Complex Vision Finally, if the order of nature proves the power and the intelligence, disorder ought to prove the weakness, inconstancy, and irrationality of Divinity. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense It seems that he has “a strong sense of the irrationality of that period” and of “the utter folly of those who take it seriously and play at restoring it.” Matthew Arnold Any spectacular irrationality that you may hereafter develop in connection with Miss Westfall, will lead to its disclosure. Diane of the Green Van So Keynes�s reference is not to wild beasts, though Mankiw suggests such with his mention of �irrationality� and �arbitrary changes in attitude�. Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy But Kingsley was too much of a poet not to feel those "last enchantments" which whispered to Arnold from Oxford towers, maugre his "strong sense of the irrationality of that period." A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Her hope became such an obsession that its irrationality did not strike her. The Vehement Flame It was affirmed that, to a degree of more than skeptic scorn, Bannadonna had been without sympathy for any of the vain-glorious irrationalities of his time. The Piazza Tales To make the impossibility of thinking the opposite, the test of truth, and then to shut one's eyes to those evidences which might compel one to think the opposite, is the essence of irrationality. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Hence its dislike of irregularity in art and irrationality in religion. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Distrust the judgment of the multitude in all matters of reasoning and philosophy; there its voice is the voice of malice, folly, inhumanity, irrationality, and prejudice. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) One of the unfair irrationalities of love is that it may, at first, be attracted by the defects of the beloved, and later repelled by them. The Vehement Flame Children may well be excused for concluding that the ways of the adult, in their capricious irrationality, are past finding out. The Feast of St. Friend The antithesis to reason is not faith, but irrationality. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant The mere enunciation of the problem is, therefore, an irrationality. Tragic Sense Of Life But this was a wild and baseless dream, whose irrationality I quickly recognized. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 I will know nothing, consider nothing, hear nothing of the folly of the wise, of the irrationality of the rational, of the stupidity of the sage. The Youth of the Great Elector Desist from this irrationality and bend all thy might, so long as in thee lies, to exert thyself for the good and for divine recompense. Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I He did not mind—well, he did, but what could he do, he argued, when the irrationality of pleasure seeking sedated one as he journeyed around alone on the rugged terrain of the Earth. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Their life, I repeat, not their thought, save in so far as it was thought inspired by life, thought with a basis of irrationality. Tragic Sense Of Life Champions of the “inflective” languages are wont to glory in the very irrationalities of Latin and Greek, except when it suits them to emphasize their profoundly “logical” character. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Cases innumerable might be cited to manifest the irrationality of such an inference. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 4, part 2: John Tyler The term Nihilism is also applied to those philosophical systems which sweep the course clear of all incredibilities and irrationalities, but leave us bare of all our inherited spiritual possessions. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge "Am I responsible for a Moslem's superstitions, or his fanatic irrationality?" The Flying Legion But there is no such thing," said Father Payne, "except in combination with entire irrationality. Father Payne The glorious irrationalities and formal complexities of many “savage” languages they have no stomach for. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech It may have been a mere passing whim or fancy, done in a moment of weakness or emotion or temporary irrationality. By Advice of Counsel The only irrationality left would be the irrationality of which pluralism as such is accused, and of this I hope to say a word more later. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy The irrationality of this particular Medicine culminates in a mock battle-rush, from which many of the squaws are borne out, much dilapidated. The Uncommercial Traveller He had ceased drinking at a point below irrationality, and had neither stirred nor spoken during two or three hours. Wuthering Heights But, to bring the irrationality of man more completely to the test, let us change the supposition. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author But when we gravely ask ourselves whether this wholesale organization of irrationality and crime be our only bulwark against effeminacy, we stand aghast at the thought, and think more kindly of ascetic religion. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature It is one of those eulogistic words that both sides claim—for almost no one is willing to advertise his philosophy as a system of irrationality. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy The unfading boyishness of hope and its vigorous irrationality are nowhere better displayed than in questions of conduct. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers And I succumb to irrationality, as rational persons invariably end by doing. The Certain Hour First, strictly from a philosophical standpoint, a shooting contest was a completely irrational method of choosing either a spouse or a future king, and irrationality like this always troubled the young knight. Stories from the Old Attic They are not troubled by its irrationalities, but receive them with pious awe, as Schiller intended. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Perhaps the words 'foreignness' and 'intimacy,' which I put forward in my first lecture, express the contrast I insist on better than the words 'rationality' and 'irrationality'—let us stick to them, then. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Finally, the linguists insisted upon the irrationality of the word, in relation to the concept. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Her self-reproachful tenderness was tinged with the sense of his irrationality: she had a vague feeling that there was a purpose in his helpless tyrannies. The Greater Inclination Well, I've told you this story as evidence of the foolishness and irrationality of the human heart. Stories from the Old Attic It seems to me an attempt so to admit an irrational proposition as to have the credit of denying it, or to separate an irrational proposition from its irrationality. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Theologians have felt its irrationality acutely, and the 'fall,' the predestination, and the election which the situation involves have given them more trouble than anything else in their attempt to pantheize Christianity. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy And the individual or nation who relies upon might to enforce wrong must in the end, perceiving the irrationality of his world, collapse. The World Decision That is another of the confused irrationalities into which you all allow yourselves to fall. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography There is an evident intrinsic irrationality, and thereby moral evil, in such sins as intemperance, peevishness, and vanity. Moral Philosophy —The infinite irrationality of it seems to me notable. The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow Bradley holds to the intellectualist logic, and by dint of it convicts the human universe of being irrationality incarnate. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy The devotee's irrationality springs from a thousand inexplicable demonstrations of God's instancy in trouble. Autobiography of a Yogi In short, if the order of nature proves the power and intelligence of the Deity, disorder must prove his weakness, instability, and irrationality. Good Sense There the unnaturalness comes in and the irrationality. Moral Philosophy They most ably vindicated the doctrine of the Trinity, negatively, against the charge of positive irrationality. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. The logical proof alleged of the irrationality of supposing otherwise, is that you can deny the whole only in words that implicitly assert it. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy It is one of the most beautiful things under heaven, this irrationality of the heart. International Short Stories: French "Hum!—yes, sir; there is a certain amount of irrationality in any body desiring such a thing—not in you especially." The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier Temperance makes a man strong against the temptations to irrationality and swinishness that come of the bodily appetites. Moral Philosophy It is the purification, indeed, from material irrationality, and the mortal body; but the perfection, in consequence of being the resumption of our proper felicity, and a reascent to the divine likeness. Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato If rationality be in it at all, it must be in it throughout; if irrationality be in it anywhere, that also must pervade it throughout. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy The theory of final causes has been hitherto employed to show the wisdom of the world; with our Pessimist philosopher it shows nothing but its irrationality and misery. Unconscious Memory Refer the following terms to their proper place under each of the divisions in the scheme:— horse husband London free lump empty liberty rational capital impotent reason Capitol impetuosity irrationality grave impulsive double calf. Deductive Logic "She doesn't mean anything by it," her little world had always said; and put up with the inconvenience of her furies, with the patience of people who were themselves incapable of the irrationalities of temper. The Iron Woman In each case, we are concerned with the work of reason, and judgments as to rationality and irrationality are equally in place. A Handbook of Ethical Theory Mr. McTaggart writes, in discussing the notion of a mixture: 'The two principles, of rationality and irrationality, to which the universe is then referred, will have to be absolutely separate and independent. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy The increase of knowledge, the development of science and philosophy, bring floods of new ideas to burst the old dams; deepening insight reveals the irrationality of old ideas to the leaders of thought. Problems of Conduct As the machines neared the surface, a familiar odor floated in through the open windows of the air-craft; and the four found themselves looking at each other for signs of irrationality. The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life Out of that "one primal source," however, all ruin and irrationality, all evil flows as well, and its name, according to Strauss, is Cosmos. Thoughts out of Season Part I |
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