| 单词 | rationality |
| 例句 | Yet habit had overcome her rationality and had made her ask me: “Boy, do you steal?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Something is knocking on the doors,” Theodora said in a tone of pure rationality. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z If anything and everything is to be treated as an actor’s judgement then the ideas of truth, rationality and objective reality become meaningless, and we can all be immortal if we choose. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Second, there is the claim that the concept of rationality is always culturally relative. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I had always thought that if the impossible were to confront me, I would be unbending in my rationality. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It makes a lot of sense, which makes me suspect it is a call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z To add insult to injury, the Pythagoreans soon discovered that the golden ratio, the ultimate Pythagorean symbol of beauly and rationality, was an irrational number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z What monsters will creep from the darkness and steal my rationality? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z 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 Likewise, the celebrated rationality of the fifth century represents a retrospective bleaching of what was actually a complex and contested story. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Her protective vigilance for her surviving family had overtaken rationality. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Some philosophers and nearly all anthropologists agreed: standards of rationality were, they insisted, local and highly variable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Instead, Preminger deftly and undemonstratively evokes the shortcomings of the system, its failure to account for aspects of human behavior that defy rationality, that contradict self-interest and confound tidy chains of cause and effect. DVD: Preminger?s ?Anatomy of a Murder? on DVD 2012-03-09T17:00:00Z But at some point, won’t it be in my grandchild’s best interests for me to explain that belief in a fictional deity is a poor substitute for science and rationality? Grandma, What Do You Mean There’s No God? 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The refusal to do so is chilling those of us who unequivocally believe in women’s rights, who believe in freedom of expression, who believe in rationality and critical thinking. Liberals’ blind faith: The silence on the misogyny in the Muslim world is deafening 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The state apparatus is the fig leaf of efficiency, rationality and even, modernity in a system that is an ideological construct of the most absurd kind. A Separation can't be divorced from Iranian politics 2011-07-05T12:13:51Z So he lets his pride eclipse his rationality and derail his self-preservation instinct. "Breaking Bad" 4x6, "Cornered" 2011-08-22T09:23:00Z For one, liberalism does not suppose perfect rationality. The deep roots of modern resentment 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Without rationality, you are merely an emotional beast. Omotions are cultural – not built in at birth | Lisa Feldman Barrett 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Geary subsequently shows that wit thrives best when the brain’s policeman-like rationality lets down its guard and allows free association to run wild, releasing our inner Robin Williams. Review | So you think it’s all a big joke? What wit really is — and why we need it. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Her elbow was aching – she must have connected with his temple, she thought, in a momentary flash of rationality. The Sovereign Light Cafe by William Boyd: a short story inspired by Keane 2012-06-16T08:00:00Z They were a local, social, human-scaled landscape, removed in favor of imposing a national vision of grandeur, progress and rationality. Is architect Bjarke Ingels’s bold remake of the Smithsonian Castle grounds mere folly? Packer and Rauch are here to defend the liberalism of the Enlightenment — equality and scientific rationality in an unapologetically Western-tradition sense. Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z But where Moss’s work is lumpy and asymmetrical, Simpson’s taps into the symmetry and functional rationality of diagrams. Review | The Whitney Biennial presents the best new artists in the country — and lots of fluff 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Do we crave order and rationality or are we more comfortable with the abstract and the laissez-faire? Side by Side With Sondheim: Alan Cumming Reviews a New Book About ‘Sunday in the Park’ 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z By the time Cosimo became the second Duke of Florence, the city’s political importance was fading as were the Renaissance ideals of balance and rationality. For the Medici, the Last Great Picture Show 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z It’s the fear of rationality and structure collapsing. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z In "Descartes' Error," he demonstrates you cannot make decisions only based on rationality. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z He added, “A study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.” Robert M. Pirsig, Author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ Dies at 88 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement The narrator, a theoretical physicist, is fretful, introverted, a paragon of rationality; his wife, Nora, is exuberant, ethereal, a dervish of chaos. Review: In Paolo Giordano’s ‘Like Family,’ the Nanny Departs and Cracks Emerge 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Ala Younis, born in 1974 in Kuwait City, documents a project, based on utopian rationality, that barely got off the ground. The Guggenheim Is Going Global. Kind Of. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Yet the billionaire views the visceral torrent against him with his usual rationality, surveying the scene deliberately, like the chess prodigy he once was. Peter Thiel, Trump’s Tech Pal, Explains Himself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Underlying all this confusion is the problem that we don't have a way of ranking rationalities, so that the word means something more to a moral agent than it does to an economist. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z He approaches his subject with the kind of scientist’s rationality that ushered in the Age of Reason, yet he does so also with a passion for humanity that is inspiring. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Two Books About Muslim Identity 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Here in the 21st century, science and reason rule, but in a world of sorcery, clinging to rationality just makes you stupid. Television Review : ‘Salem,’ About You-Know-What, on WGN America 2014-04-17T23:24:42Z There was a time in your life when you didn't believe in psychology, when you didn't believe that intelligent, rational people were the product of anything more than their own intelligence and their own rationality. Sue Grafton: 'My childhood ended when I was five' 2013-03-18T09:00:06Z Which you prefer is personal and beyond rationality, but in many ways Wollensky’s Grill is ideal. Going Back to Eat in Midtown, Where the Main Dish Is New York, New York 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z It has wider implications for a lot of the ways in which we think and talk about rationality. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z But the fairies have a way of bringing rationality to the behavior. The exuberance of spring takes its toll on the gardener’s wallet 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z It is a dream of renewal: the countryside stands against cold rationality, against industry. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z "I always feel saddened by intelligent people who say, this can't be true because it doesn't work in terms of rationality," he says. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z This is a mock-heroic work of history — or at least cultural anthropology — constructed by scholarly narrators sometime near the end of the third millennium, long after humanity has finally settled into peaceful rationality. Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z But in travel-crazy 2022, Vantage’s claim that pushing off your sailing date by more than a year is a “postponement” rather than a “cancellation” strains the limits of semantic rationality. Help! I’m 93, My Postponed Cruise Has Been Postponed Again, and I’d Like My Money Back. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Privileged women of the 1800s preferred to elevate rationality and sentimentality — their minds, not their flesh. A Historian Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z “So if you think of rationality as normal cognitive function, yes, there is something irrational about that kind of stance.” Alvin Plantinga?s New Book on God and Science 2011-12-13T22:30:17Z He stratified the space to serve the company’s desire to distinguish elite from regular travelers, but grouped all the spaces around a soaring and egalitarian lobby that suggested transparency and rationality. Review | The TWA Hotel revives a magnificent, mid-century vision of the friendly skies 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z “The notion of science contains in it the broader moral vision of a society in which rationality is used for the mutual benefit of all.” Does studying science make you a better person? 2013-03-23T20:00:00Z “You lose self-awareness,” she continued, referring to one interpretation of a psychological theory known as deindividuation, “and it’s been shown to lessen rationality.” A Recipe for Air Rage 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Their perfection, their lovely forms, which short-circuit suspicion and rationality, feel like propaganda. Review | Some cars are more seductive than art. Should they be included in art museums? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Man Ray’s mathematical models, Breton feared, belonged to the world of rationality. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z No matter how great the writing is in a play, it’s always going through the prison house of language; there’s always rationality attached to it. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The book’s charm resides in the way the author orbits this tension between faith and rationality. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Still, Pinker is troubled by what he sees as rationality’s image problem. In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z That, of course, only confirmed Lawrence's worldview, in which dehumanizing morality and rationality crushed nature, sex, instinct and emotion. Tarquinia: Visit the Painted Tombs of Etruscan Places 2011-01-20T09:30:00Z Trump appeals less to rationality than blind faith. The New Politics of Late Night 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z But to judge by much of the literature, it’s precisely the more categorical assertions of rationality that have endowed the movement with its intellectual cachet. Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Meanwhile the seductive Catherine Walker, as Phaedra, seemed in the grip of some unstoppable natural force, unchecked either by religion or rationality. Dublin theatre festival takes the recession seriously 2010-10-11T15:44:00Z That phrase has long been held to show that Goya was a supporter of Enlightenment rationality and the progress of reason. How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z Full of hate and anger, Dr. Myers postures as a champion of rationality. 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z Aller suffered from depression, “which crowds out rationality with a vengeance,” Clinton later noted in his memoir. Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Uelsmann’s dreamlike imagery seems to ignore the laws of gravity and rationality, much as the paintings of Rene Magritte did. Jerry Uelsmann, Surreal Image-Maker, Dies at 87 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Another classic Surrealist technique: automatism, or unchoreographed doodling, through which artists believed they could escape the fetters of conscious composition to reveal a truth beyond rationality. Getting a Grip on Unreality 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z “It was a pleasure to have dinner and watch TV with my parents. I don’t have to cook for myself. But also, I was extremely bored, and boredom is the enemy of rationality.” ‘We were sexually frustrated’: did it work out for people who texted an ex in lockdown? 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z “These designs remember the efficiency, the reduction, the rationality, of what the best bentwood pieces are all about,” Mr. Hackenschmidt said. The Sleek Curves That Reshaped Furniture Design 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Put Mr. Murray in any setting where order, tidiness and rationality are taken seriously, and he becomes the consummate anarchic slob; that’s enough to keep ”Ghostbusters” going, like ”Stripes” and ”Meatballs” before it. When Ghostbusters Came Out 30 Years Ago, Reviews Were Scarily Mixed 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z It was Franklin who deemed those same truths “self-evident,” to convey that they were rooted in rationality, not religion. Books of The Times: ‘Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,’ by Jon Meacham 2012-11-20T22:57:50Z The rise of modern bureaucracy is a well-established topic in sociology and political science, where it is often related as a tale of increasing order and rationality. Noting the History of the Paper Trail 2012-12-16T20:47:26Z So scientific rationality, the absence of which was earlier mocked, now, after all, reveals its limitations. Poem of the week: The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium by Heather Hartley 2010-11-22T13:27:00Z Art movements like Dadaism and Surrealism evolved partly in reaction to that history, a way of making sense with the failure of rationality. You Win Or You Die: The Ruthless Beauty of Boardwalk Empire’s Finale 2013-11-25T15:53:00Z But then he attacks it for upending “the universal values of the Enlightenment: objectivity, rationality, science, equality and freedom of the individual.” Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The fact that the force of rationality and civilization was lead by a cabal of religious extremists was of no concern for Hitchens. What Hitchens got wrong: Abolishing religion won’t fix anything 2013-12-07T12:30:00Z “Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.” Karen Joy Fowler’s novel of a very complicated family 2013-05-29T22:24:45Z He gives Alan a rationality and compassion that ground the story, allowing us to absorb its more outré or unlikely elements without fretting over them. ‘The Patient’ Review: The Doctor Is In. In the Basement. 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z He said it was insomniac rationality that produces monsters. How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z Michael Shermer, a professor, columnist for Scientific American and longtime public champion of reason and rationality, takes on this question and more. ‘The Moral Arc’: evidence that humanity is on the upswing 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The marathon-as-spectacle is, more than any other sporting event, built on the responsibility and rationality and general non-wickedness of other human beings. How safe can a marathon be? 2013-04-16T18:41:00Z Yes, I think yes, this is the only thing strive for — for rationality, truth, and science. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Having been, as it were, mad, and lived with horror which at that moment I completely believed in, I know that rationality doesn't carry you all the way. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z Justice is typically associated with rationality and proportionality. "The Banshees of Inisherin": Competing concepts of justice wage war in McDonagh’s Irish tragicomedy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z There’s a playful quality to Ng’s storytelling that encourages lighthearted engagement and the suspension of rationality. ‘Happy Life’ Review: Ghosts in the Studio 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Depending on your predisposition, you will either find a quasi-magical African family and a lost valley to be a necessary counterbalance to the account-book rationality of the colonizing West or you will roll your eyes. Swashbuckling Nautical Adventure Meets the 18th-Century Slave Trade 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z “Since mind, brain and body are one, it’s impossible to disentangle our vaunted rationality from the emotions,” Frans de Waal writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The righteously perverse individual appreciates the value of rationality, morality, and the good life—and then, chafing against them, chooses another path. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z About the widespread adoption of sceptical rationality Russell wrote: "these propositions may seem mild, yet, if accepted, they would absolutely revolutionise human life." The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr – review 2013-02-13T07:00:02Z Strange bodies composed of irrational color deployed with extreme rationality, they do just fine without any skeletal bones. Lisa Williamson's shrewd 'body boards' are unsettling blasts of color 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “In ‘Ancient Aliens,’ we can see philosophy’s mediated corpse,” writes Mr. Vacker, who called the show “an attack on logic, rationality, and the nature of evidence.” Suspicious Minds 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Reading your article, I kept thinking about these ongoing debates on the sophistication and rationality of the American electorate. White Americans support welfare programs — but only for themselves, says new research 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z She was investigating herself, both the researcher and the rat — determined, I think, to assert some scientific rationality over what had been an entirely irrational chapter in her life. She made a career out of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z She was as mired in the notions of the Old World, in its rationalities, its explanations, its conventions, and its Protestantism, as my father was a product of his Catholicism and his own colonial past. Cecile Pineda, Latina Writer Known for a Novel of Identity, Dies at 89 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z It's a nifty Hitchcockian premise that doesn't entirely deliver on its dark promise, but Rapace holds things together beautifully with a performance that treads an admirably ambiguous line between rationality and over-reaction. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-06-09T23:05:23Z All you could do was stare at the TV as the absurd gulf between rationality and Heston's "mission" deepened. TV review: Silk, Heston's Mission Impossible 2011-02-23T08:00:05Z No matter how well we talk the talk of technological mastery and rationality, there are crazy parts of us that remain beyond the reach of language to explain or resolve. ‘Force Majeure,’ a Dark Swedish Comedy 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The phone becomes a sort of crisis for rationality. Nicholas Royle's top 10 writers on the telephone 2010-10-06T09:25:00Z 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 “I need the transparency of the French piano — and, more important, the rationality of French philosophy,” she said. Brigitte Engerer, French Pianist, Dies at 59 2012-06-30T03:39:20Z Medical experts alleged that Lifespring stripped away a student’s rationality through forced confrontation. What is Ginni Thomas saying now? The evolution of an unusually outspoken Supreme Court spouse 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z At one point in his decline, Paul gets “punitively drunk to the point of sudden rationality.” He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z It is still, depending on your preferences, a doddering throwback or an oasis of old-school rationality and calm. ‘Bosch: Legacy’ Review: More of the Same (Good) Thing 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z British author Lucy Hughes-Hallett, who chaired the judging panel, said the “hypnotically compelling” book was both “appalling” and poetic, “entering the reader’s consciousness at a level that bypasses rationality and transcends the subject matter.” David Diop wins International Booker Prize with WWI story 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z The Sudden Departure scrambled assumptions about morality, but it also wrecked the idea that rationality and logic govern human life. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Laws of Human Nature, Interrupted -- or, The Case of the Disappearing Bagel 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Most of the importance of Kahneman and Tversky’s work lies in the claim that departures from perfect rationality can be anticipated and specified. The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Emotion won out over rationality every time, but I didn't care. What condiments would you take on a cross-country move? 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z He invokes art, science, free market rationality, protection of one’s family. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z It might make sense on the page — and certainly history has plenty of examples of men committed to rationality and scientific progress who were also blindly racist — but dramatically, it hasn’t been adding up. 'The Knick' Recap: Sins of the Flesh, With a Kick 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z And it's all the product of our fanatical commitment to economic rationality. Apple is better by design, but does little for western workers 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z If rationality is at stake in this particular debate, Bill Maher is firmly in the kook camp here. Bill Maher, atheist fundamentalist: Why he gives nonbelievers a bad name 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Anthropologist David Sutton also suggests that food can serve as a tool to challenge the so-called market "rationality" and other assumptions of contemporary neoliberalism. Why food is such a powerful symbol in political protest 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z I was just writing to comment the rationality and substantive nature of that debate. Glenn Greenwald's reader Q&A: the highlights 2013-01-24T23:07:00Z Mamet suggests that this cripples the theatrical exchange, which hinges on the spectator relinquishing rationality. The Edinburgh festival offers plenty for free but is it better to pay? 2010-08-10T13:30:00Z Better, perhaps, to inject some rationality into the event, especially as the Brood X cicada relates to our yards and gardens. The cicadas are coming. But gardeners need not panic. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Doctors, by our nature, are trained in language that is complex and style of communication that emphasizes rationality and restraint. Will Olympics spread measles? 2012-07-26T15:50:00Z So, perhaps she personifies not only earthy, untrammeled bodily energy, but also what you might call lunar consciousness: a kind of intuitive mentality that in many old, esoteric traditions represents the opposite of “solar” rationality. Art in Review: Carroll Dunham 2012-12-06T23:06:32Z 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 Emotions are thought to be a kind of brute reflex, very often at odds with our rationality. Omotions are cultural – not built in at birth | Lisa Feldman Barrett 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z The novel has the immersive imaginative power of fable; it also deepens Moore’s career-long investigation into the kind of collapsed rationality that borders on genius and might, very easily, be misdiagnosed as madness. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Lewis read the review, began to take an interest in the whole topic of human rationality, and, improbably, decided to write a book about Kahneman and Tversky. The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Both remain staunchly critical of racism, but allow enough room to accept that there is some rationality behind the discontent. This is England ? on stage 2010-04-16T11:31:00Z “There has never been any rationality to it,” he said. The 18-Year Wait for New Wrens Music Is Over. Sort Of. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Such rationality may not stop you from succumbing, however. What makes an iPad tick? Take a look inside? 2010-05-16T16:01:00Z Freud, ever the student of human behavior, was so intent on facing death with clarity and rationality that he refused all painkillers except aspirin for his throat cancer. Review: In ‘The Violet Hour,’ Great Writers Facing the Inevitable 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z So do most of the “CSI” franchises, which are supposed to showcase forensic science and rationality and are instead telenovelas with lab coats and better lighting. The TV Watch: ?Law & Order?: Soon to Be Gone but Not Forgotten 2010-05-16T21:40:00Z A reference to Sherlock Holmes underlines its challenge to rationality to explain the world. Theater Review: Ionesco?s ?Bald Soprano? at City Center - Review 2011-09-27T21:06:39Z Her phrasing stays exquisitely close to these minds, not quite stream of consciousness, but shadowing the confluence of anxiety and rationality they all harbor. Review | ‘Red Clocks’ imagines a world where abortion is outlawed. And it feels eerily real. 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Though her lovesick Sappho rails at the futility of "reason" and "philosophy", elsewhere, Robinson argues eloquently for women's rationality and right to education. Poem of the week: Sappho and Phaon by Mary Robinson 2010-04-12T09:52:00Z On camera, Mr. Wright, a staff writer for The New Yorker who functions as the movie’s leading voice of reason and rationality, explains that he’s always been interested in religions and beliefs. Review: Alex Gibney Takes On Scientology in ‘Going Clear’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z It also addresses conflicts between faith and rationality; the drive to reproduce and the impulse to resist it; and the relative merits of expediency and caution in a crisis. | 'Wax Wings': In the Labyrinth of Medical Research 2011-06-07T21:44:48Z He can’t pronounce its name, but he has a vision of the city as a Valhalla of cleanliness, rationality and order. Television Review: Steven Van Zandt in Norwegian Netflix Series ?Lilyhammer? 2012-02-05T17:43:53Z “We contend there is a lay image or notion of ‘science’ that is associated with concepts of rationality, impartiality, fairness, technological progress,” they write. Does studying science make you a better person? 2013-03-23T20:00:00Z But there was still a core to their movement, which emphasized the limits of rationality and extolled the imagination. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z This idea seems feminist on the surface, but it actually tilts toward a dangerous opposite: that somehow women, creatures of feeling more than rationality or intellect, aren’t wholly responsible for their behavior. Emily Blunt Makes a Droopy 'Girl on a Train' Worth Watching 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Well, our culture suffers from terminal rationality, and the strange tale pokes and prods at the mystery in our lives. Books of the Dead 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Seeking rationality in the immigration debate, this book advocates a merit-based system like Canada’s. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z To some extent, Allen brought a businessman’s rationality to his collecting, assessing whether a painting was likely to appreciate. Opening Paul Allen’s Treasure Chest 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z For the rest of us, though, this near-indecipherable movie — as murky in plot and payoff as in setting — demands such a total suspension of rationality that its few scary moments struggle to land. ‘The Boogeyman’ Review: Monster Hash 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z “The darkness is something we’re all afraid of. And rationality isn’t everything.” Rita Tushingham on life after A Taste of Honey: 'It was a shock when the 60s ended' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z That rationality — and her sense of herself as “a creature of rules” — would prove useful in law school, and later when she was a prosecutor and judge. Books of The Times: ‘My Beloved World,’ a Memoir by Sonia Sotomayor 2013-01-21T23:11:43Z Reaching beyond his stage act to meditate on our willingness to accept fakery as truth, the so-called Amazing Randi — and his equally amazing eyebrows — is a Gandalf of rationality. Review: ‘An Honest Liar,’ a Documentary About the Debunker James Randi 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Today, we expect speculative tales to at least gesture toward rationality; we fetishize the “origin story.” The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Disbelief in a supernatural creator, especially as the movement becomes more popular or “hep,” as I’m pretending the kids say, in no way guarantees rationality in matters of foreign policy or economics, for example. Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else 2012-08-04T14:01:00Z None of the interventions—sternness, the rationality of modern medicine, even the determined companionship of a lovable maker of children’s coffins named Katz—is of any use. William Goldman’s Strange, Sad, Captivating Children’s Book About a Girl and Her Blanket 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Eight is the age of many things — Harry Potter, hair chalk, high volume — but rationality is not among them. My daughter’s sleep issues have resurfaced with the pandemic, and I’m losing my mellow mojo 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Rossini's "mad" choruses, particularly in this opera, reflect the folly of life with dazzling rationality and tight musical control. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z After all, people use rationality all the time in their everyday lives, consulting the knowledge they have in order to get what they want. In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z 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 “In either case, emotionality overrides rationality,” he says. What does 'living fully' mean? Welcome to the age of pseudo-profound nonsense 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Lyra seeks a balance between imagination and rationality. Review | Philip Pullman returns to the world of ‘His Dark Materials’ with ‘The Secret Commonwealth’ 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z In this image of the hooded figure, torture articulates its own symmetrical rationality: It becomes a ceremonial elaboration whereby power exerts itself for power’s sake. Torture and silence: Photos by Andres Serrano confront what we don't talk about 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z The lawyer in me prized rationality and logic, and the idea that outcomes were predetermined ran contrary to all my work, education and ambition. The Heart Said Yes; the Hindu Horoscope Said No 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z All they need do is make manifest a higher rationality than self-interest. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z Shermer writes that the road to progress was paved by a rationality that increased through the Enlightenment and then the Industrial Revolution. Science may prove to be humanity's savior 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z A nascent rationalism was enlisted to determine the boundaries of creatures that defied rationality. Are Vampires Cancelled? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z In the context of history, we live in an age of unparalleled science and rationality. Boards of Canada: 'We've become a lot more nihilistic over the years' 2013-06-06T17:53:57Z Art, in its appeal to emotion, can override rationality, he notes. Curator Nato Thompson shines a light on art and the culture wars in 'Culture as Weapon' 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z But there was something else — something that bears more directly on his thesis that rationality has been such a benevolent force for progress. In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Twain is embraced as a progressive for his condemnations of imperialism and his demands for human equality and rationality, but Hank made similar demands, and look what happened. Critic?s Notebook: Forget What You Know of Twain, Then Delight in Your Rediscovery 2010-09-18T00:13:00Z But I also see how data and apparent rationality are especially popular costuming. This Week in Fiction: Rivka Galchen Discusses Her Story “How Can I Help?” 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z It’s the most important time of the year in terms of others, and brings serious rationality into the picture. Sign Language: Horoscopes for people oblivious to Astrology 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z No daylight law, no rationality, seems to hold. A Red-Hot Affair With a Younger Man, and the Writing It Kindled 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z But McElwee then asserts that “the force of rationality and civilization was led by a cabal of religious extremists” – in the Bush administration — which “was of no concern for Hitchens.” The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z The play also exploits the actor's hilarious slow-burn, a Jack Benny-like turn of the head suggesting that all rationality has just been destroyed. Three bright performances on Broadway: Nathan Lane, Michael Cera and Alex Sharp 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z While most people think Wall Street people as greedy, from the inside accounts I've read they actually consider themselves paragons of rationality. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The late scholar Edward Said once decried the Western attitude of treating the East having provided "a fecund night out of which European rationality developed. " Ballet Preljocaj's 'Les Nuits' seduces but is problematic 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z But it also reenacts and reinterprets one of the foundational metaphors of Western rationality, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, in which shadows play a fundamental role. ‘Days of Endless Time’ at the Hirshhorn examines our need for nature to soothe us Economical rationality: everything has a price and every move in your life as a YouTuber is about money, likes, etc. YouTubers at the mercy of the algorithm: “The idea is to post content, not have an interesting... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Thompson wants to examine why Shylock abandons rationality, insists on a moral wrong and then — this is the sticking point — refuses to relent. Artistically in Sync, and Reunited for ‘The Merchant of Venice’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Toward the end of “Against Empathy,” Mr. Bloom concedes that “rationality in political domains often does seem to be in short supply.” Review: ‘Against Empathy,’ or the Right Way to Feel Someone’s Pain 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Whether as devout belief or fond wish, our hearts understand what our rationality rejects: Bigfoot is us. These 5 audiobooks will change your mind about Bigfoot 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z “But China has taken scientifically groundless measures, and we need to speak up and call for a withdrawal of practices that lack rationality and distort trade.” Koi emerges as new source of souring relations between Japan and China 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z These include superficial charm and intelligence, pure rationality, a cheating personality, lack of remorse, irresponsibility, and being emotionally shallow. How to tell if your boss is a 'corporate psychopath' 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Dialetheists reject the law of noncontradiction and claim that rather than expelling contradictions from every corner of rationality, we should embrace them as peculiar types of statements that are occasionally true and false simultaneously. A Married Bachelor Proves That Unicorns Exist 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z At the risk of oversimplifying things slightly, authoritarianism is at heart a movement that rejects and despises the ideals of rationality and democratic power-sharing. House GOP in total chaos: So much for fascist order and discipline! 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z "During episodes of high political tensions, a lot of reason and rationality is suspended and people get provoked by everything. So artistes need to be sensitive in dealing with the situation." India Canada tensions: Hip-hop stars hit by row over Sikh separatism 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Indeed, being seen as "too" smart can hurt you with the GOP base, which suspiciously eyes intelligence as a gateway drug to rationality. President Drink Bleach says he beat George W. Bush and Barack Obama 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z "Such crises are resolved through understanding and reliance on rationality, away from the language of emotion and convulsive populist statements that only produce more crises and tension", Sudani was quoted as telling his cabinet. Iraq wants to overcome dispute with Kuwait over maritime waterway, PM says 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z If you had told me back then that I’d someday hold up Gingrich as a model of rationality, I wouldn’t have believed you. Why Kevin McCarthy can’t do his job | Paul Krugman 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z This incomprehensible power struggle is a direct outgrowth of the internal logic of authoritarianism, a movement that rejects and despises the ideals of rationality and democratic power-sharing. House GOP in total chaos: So much for fascist order and discipline! 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z "The fact that he killed Prigozhin - at least that's the information we all have, not any other kind - that also speaks to his rationality, and about the fact that he is weak," Zelenskiy said. Ukraine's Zelenskiy says Putin killed mercenary boss Prigozhin 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z What decent people struggle to understand is that it's all by design when people like Ramaswamy thumb their noses at consistency, rationality, and factual reality. Vivek Ramaswamy's 15 minutes are here, showing yet again all the GOP base wants is trolling 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z "We had a duty to act with some calm and rationality in the face of lack of rationality and lack of calm," she told the committee. Huw Edwards: BBC director general Tim Davie discusses 'difficult' allegations 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z They carry a world inside their heads now, and they want to share its lessons—- its efficacy and efficiency, its stability and rationality—- with the rest of us. Closing out a Supreme Court term tainted by corruption 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z To Americans who believe in rationality and democracy, it's ridiculous, to hear Trump spin a tale about how he's just too dumb to be expected to tell golf pants from classified documents. Trump goes with the "too stupid to know better" defense 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z “The whole world has the same concern. We hope that the U.S. election restores a bit of rationality,” said José Pio Borges, president of the Brazilian Center for International Relations think tank said Tuesday. Everyone’s got something to say about Trump — except world leaders who might have to deal with him 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Indeed, Manly pointed out that a trauma-bonded victim can become "deeply attached to the abuser in ways that defy rationality." You’re misusing the term ‘trauma bonded’ to describe your job 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z "We're united by one more principle – rationality," he said in a speech to the leaders, the text of which was posted to the president's website. Zelenskiy seeks G7 support for Kyiv's 'peace formula' 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Originally an offshoot of the Cynics, the Stoics became philosophers of fate and rationality. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States should “correct its understanding of China and return to rationality,” Qin said, repeating his earlier accusation that the U.S. is attempting to suppress and contain China. China tells US to ‘reflect deeply’ over downturn in ties 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z They understand that as long as rationality, evidence, and facts retain widespread social value, it's a threat to their goal of a total fascist takeover. Why Steve Bannon and Alex Jones love RFK Jr. 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z The assumptions, "logic", and revolutionary goals of the global neofascist and right-wing project exist outside of rationality, empirical reality and real facts. A fascist Jesus Christ: MAGA turns Donald Trump into a martyr 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z "We always act practically protecting our values. And the Ukrainian Peace Formula is an obvious expression of rationality. I thank you for supporting our Formula." Zelenskiy seeks G7 support for Kyiv's 'peace formula' 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z The implication was that people have the right to judge the monarch in terms of his or her competence and rationality. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, as politicians try to reduce complex issues to simple sound bites, rationality still prevails. Stop falling for political rhetoric 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Figures like Bannon and Jones see value in Kennedy because they understand that as long as rationality, evidence, and facts retain widespread social value, it's a threat to their goal of a total fascist takeover. Why Steve Bannon and Alex Jones love RFK Jr. 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z And rationality is the death of reactionary politics. Why the GOP is obsessed with "woke" — but can't define it 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Hitler's success in winning power helps demonstrate one of the Right's great strengths: its explicit and powerful use of emotion, which has often historically triumphed over the Left's appeal to rationality. Media plays a dangerous game with Trump 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z “If I stop to think rationally, I do nothing. I have to let go of rationality to go forward, let curiosity and fear take over, and then I’ll do anything.” Glória Maria, Who Broke Barriers in Brazilian Television, Dies at 73 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z “It’s about projecting an image of responsibility and rationality, of being the adult in the room,” Thibaut said of China’s response. Rumors swirl about balloons, UFOs as officials stay mum 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z They do not believe in science, rationality, empirical reality and have a gross disdain for learned expertise and intellectuals. Sorry, Joe Biden, Kevin McCarthy is not a “good man” 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z A number of racists, misogynists, homophobes and theocrats have taken powerful ministerial posts in his government, and the whole spirit of their enterprise is visibly hostile toward the culture of democratic tolerance and rationality. Opinion | We are liberal American Zionists. We stand with Israel’s protesters. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Once an idea stops being about what a person thinks and becomes part of who they are, it is exponentially harder for them to have a sense of rationality or proportion about it. The end of COVID emergencies means meltdown for anti-vaxxers 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z “The basic rationality, and our general instinct that we want to protect our kids, gets sadly pushed aside.” Gun owners favor requiring parents to lock up weapons. It’s lawmakers who don’t. 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z “After 44 years, people are seeing that there’s not even the smallest amount of rationality in the authorities, and there’s not the smallest hope for reform,” said the programmer in the town near Tehran. ‘Rage and a lack of hope’: Iran’s economic woes add fuel to protests 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The press is so desperate for normal conservatives to cover that even the slightest nod towards rationality is read as permission to round up a Republican to the class of "responsible" politicians. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to be a mainstream Republican now. Sadly, the media will let it happen 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Between the end of World War II and the 1960s, Modernism in architecture responded to the public need for basic functionality with rationality, stronger materials and a simplistic geometry. In a new exhibit, Wayne Thom’s photographs examine buildings as ‘functional sculptures’ 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z But passion and rationality rarely mix, so here’s the question: Should Mariners fans be upset that their team didn’t land a whale of a free agent during the winter meetings? Should fans be upset that M’s didn’t take big swing at winter meetings? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z She was drawn to the esoteric, while he was a scientist who prided himself on his agnostic rationality. A Failed Romance, Long Lockdowns and a Friend’s Suicide in India 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z One of Jung’s most iconic synchronistic stories concerned a patient who he felt had become so stuck in her own rationality that it interfered with her ability to understand her own and emotional life. Strange coincidences: Are they fluke events or acts of God? 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z There is no rationality to justify the absence of legal protection for same-sex couples and “it is in a state of violation” of the Article 24 of the Japanese Constitution, the court said. Tokyo court: Lack of law for same-sex union unconstitutional 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “Because the dog owners failed to negate every conceivable basis for the ordinance’s rationality, the ordinance satisfies rational basis review and substantive due process analysis. The judgment is affirmed,” the appellate court’s opinion reads. Iowa city’s pit bull ban survives another court challenge 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z “Throwing stones at powerful Iran by countries sitting in glass houses has no meaning other than crossing the borders of rationality into the darkness of stupidity,” Khatib said. Iran protests rage on streets as officials renew threats 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z "Until now, Iran has adopted a strategy of patience with firm rationality, but it does not give any guarantee for the continuation of this in case of hostilities," Fars quoted Esmail Khatib as saying. Iran tells Saudis its 'strategy of patience' not guaranteed to continue -Fars 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Their rationality is not your rationality, and you had best accept that fact. Hillary Clinton's 2016 strategist: We learned about conventional wisdom the hard way 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Xi said nations should “oppose the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons,” but he called the international situation “complex” and urged all nations to “exercise rationality and restraint.” G-7 agrees to fix, defend Ukraine’s infrastructure amid Russian attacks 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z What she probably felt was the rationality rushing out of her brain. Times readers don't want to believe in Comedy Store ghosts 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Central Asia’s frontiers “have no rationality, whether geographic, economic or ethnic,” the French political scientist Olivier Roy once wrote. The Tajik Artisans Guarding the Country’s Cultural Legacy 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z “It makes no sense and we’re just trying to inject some rationality into this.” A Plan to Save a Beloved Park From Flooding Has Angered Its Biggest Fans 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z More important, this discourse focused on Trump's perceived insanity, ignorance or immorality works to mitigate, both socially and legally, against more accurate perceptions of his rationality, intentionality and level of culpability. Donald Trump's life of crime: Most books are clueless — these five explain him best 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Or I would just say outright fascist movement that believes that their will to power matters more than Enlightenment values like rationality, evidence, debate and discourse. "I had this nightmare, but I didn't know it was mine:" Dahlia Lithwick on Trump's crisis of law 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Among them was Stephen Kinnock, who said PR had "such a force of logic and clear rationality in terms of why it is the right thing to do". Starmer accused of acting like a monarch in PR row 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z "I still believe Putin isn't insane, there is some rationality in him. So if nuclear weapons are used, this could endanger the existence of Russia as well as the whole world." Disdain and defiance among Kyiv residents after Putin order 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z “Unfortunately,” Mr. Milovanovic noted, “emotion and rationality do not go together.” In One Corner of Kosovo, Cheers Still Ring Out for Putin 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z “There’s always a sliver of a doubt in people’s minds about Putin’s rationality and his willingness to set the global economy, and his own economy, ablaze in order to make a point,” Mr. Fishman said. What Price Is Right? Why Capping Russian Oil Is Complicated. 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z On the other hand, we didn't get human rights or science or modernity because rationality has no power in the world. "I had this nightmare, but I didn't know it was mine:" Dahlia Lithwick on Trump's crisis of law 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z “You always assume — and maybe that was a mistake — an underlying rationality,” he told the New York Times in 1975. Earl Silbert, first prosecutor in the Watergate case, dies at 86 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z After the Berlin Wall came down there was optimism, a sense of real possibility and the sense that rationality could be applied to the political order. Ian McEwan reflects on 'the hope and foreboding' of his new novel — and his life 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Seattle City Hall observers hoping to see a glimmer of good governance and rationality have reason to smile. Harmony, hope for Seattle City Council with pot-reform agreement 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z He identifies rationality as the unique function of human beings and says that human virtue, or excellence, is therefore realized through the development or perfection of reason. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Although it is rooted in Christian beliefs and the Bible, Swedenborgianism arose along with other movements of the time that sought to reconcile spirituality and scientific rationality. Mehmet Oz’s new hometown is a private, religious community where opinions on him are split 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, as January 6 showed, that disconnect from all rationality makes them even more dangerous. Why the GOP's victim complex is in full effect over FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z “I don’t think many of their promises are based on rationality,” said Timothy Njoya, a retired reverend and human rights activist. Kenyans head to polls in tightly contested, closely watched election 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Science—that is to say, Euro-American science—has long been held as our model for rationality. Carbon-Reduction Plans Rely on Tech That Doesn't Exist 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Aristotle identifies rationality as the unique function of human beings, and human virtue or excellence is therefore realized through the development or perfection of reason. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z That excuses inaction and rewrites cowardice as rationality. Steve Bannon's bluster falls flat: Trumpism is weakened when its leaders face consequences 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z James called this the "sentiment of rationality": the feelings that go along with thinking. Buying into conspiracy theories can be exciting – that’s what makes them dangerous 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z They know in their hearts that they can't defend their views with facts or rationality. Our summer of misogynist rage: Toxic men unleash a wave of violent threats aimed at outspoken women 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z “It simply destroys, simply kills,” he said, adding that, “the Russian army is deaf to any rationality.” As Russia renews shelling in Kharkiv, the civilian death toll is growing, officials say. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z This section dives deeper into these questions and explores different foundations for moral values, such as God, religious faith, nature, society, politics, law, and rationality. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Noting that "Cornyn was tweeting a few days ago about making schools like airports," journalist Aaron Rupar said, "I'm skeptical of his rationality on guns." Biden suggests "rational" Republicans may act on gun control, Twitter erupts 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Thank you to all who worked to make generosity and rationality return to Seattle. Tiny-house village: A return to rationality 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z “That would not be a mistake — that would be a total departure from rationality,” Mr. Trenin said. Russia’s War Has Been Brutal, but Putin Has Shown Some Restraint. Why? 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Critics say CRT and SEL lessons have crept into math textbooks in recent years as part of an effort to purge math of bias toward White male rationality. Florida releases examples of rejected ‘woke math’ textbooks 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z They take issue with the separation of rationality and emotion. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “Western White male cis rationality undergirds the racist, sexist, colonialist, imperialist Enlightenment project.” Conservatives fight ‘woke math’ textbooks in K-12 schools 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Becoming known as Unitarians, they continued traditional worship but stressed God’s love, compassion, and rationality over belief in miracles or the divinity of Christ. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Biden's impromptu nine words underscore that we must not take anything for granted about his rationality. Nine words that shook the world: What was Joe Biden thinking? 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z The judge said she and other courts were trying to bring rationality to those kinds of cases. 1 in 4 child porn felons reoffend, federal statistics show 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Kant suggested that we derive categorical imperatives through four formulations that serve as a standard or guide to test whether our reasons for acting conform to the standard of rationality and thus moral law. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Democracy assumes a certain threshold of personal responsibility, individual rationality and the efficacy of information. Opinion | Tobacco: Still troubling, even for a tobacco company 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Washington should “return to the right track of rationality and pragmatism,” he said. China lashes Washington over Quad, North Korea 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z “Solving complex problems requires calmness and rationality, rather than adding fuel to the fire and intensifying contradictions,” he told a news conference on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China’s parliament. China to provide Ukraine humanitarian aid, praises Russia ties 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z There is no fear in this game for City now, not one that is rooted in any rationality. In Derby Without Drama, City Wins a Laugher 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Like later Scholastics, Anselm believed that a rational system of thought reflects the rationality inherent in the universe and that reason and logic can lead people to God. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Public discussion about Putin’s rationality has grown in recent days. Opinion | Distraught dictator or rational actor? With Putin and Ukraine, the evidence is chilling. 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The United States is in the midst of a cultural war infused by a counterrevolutionary movement that is waging a full-scale attack against ideas, truth, rationality, ethics and justice. In an age of fascist counterrevolution, our biggest problem may be the death of ethics 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z "These were terms accepted by the patent holders when they accepted federal grants. By exercising march-in rights it would bring some rationality in pricing to some of these obscenely priced speciality drugs." There's already a law on the books that could lower prescription drug prices — but no one's using it 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Furthermore, risk assessment is a basic test of rationality, as is weighing the trade-offs when responding to risks. Opinion | Witness how progressives in government forfeit the public’s trust 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Kant located our worth and dignity in our capacity for rationality. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z But their solution was to undermine the promise of rationality and fairness made by the court in 1976, when it allowed the states to enforce new, supposedly improved, death penalty laws. Opinion | If the Supreme Court ever abolishes the death penalty, we must thank Justice Breyer 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z In an interview with Russian radio stations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the written response the United States delivered to the Russian government on Wednesday contained “kernels of rationality on secondary issues.” U.K. prepares to deploy forces to NATO’s eastern flank, as Ukraine sees continued cyberattacks 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said in a radio interview that Washington’s written response this week contained “a kernel of rationality” on some matters. White House warnings over Russia strain Ukraine-U.S. partnership 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z On one extreme pole, he needed to write something “to represent that feeling of reverence for knowledge, for science, for rationality, for the higher aspirations of humankind.” How Nicholas Britell mixes reverence with absurdity in the 'Don't Look Up' score 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Locke invokes natural law, which is the notion that humankind is granted rationality by God and can use that rationality to determine moral laws. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z A judicious blend of emotion and rationality, Mlodinow writes, "provides the more efficient route to achieving a workable answer." Why our emotions are so powerful 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Yet emotion is often dismissed as the inferior sibling of rationality, the impulsive, chaotic troublemaker that it always has to bail out. Leonard Mlodinow, author of "Emotional," on how fear and disgust are your brain's friends 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Philosophy, with its characteristic emphasis on reason, often implicitly conceives of rationality as the jurisdiction of the lean, rich, white men who dominate my discipline. Opinion | Diet Culture Is Unhealthy. It’s Also Immoral. 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z So, too, was the boisterous romp of Dada, with its frontal assault on science, rationality and the arrogant political complacency that was sometimes their dark, accompanying specter. Review | Sophie Taeuber-Arp could make just about anything. That meant a complicated legacy. 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Natural law moral law naturally intuited by humankind, according to the rationality given to them by God. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z So, naturally, all rationality flew out the window when one day, a spider decided to crawl on my hands as I typed on my Logitech keyboard. The gadgets we broke 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z What the Christians really worshiped and was part of Platonic idea, but it wasn't really, was the charioteer of rationality. Leonard Mlodinow, author of "Emotional," on how fear and disgust are your brain's friends 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Authoritarianism thrives in environments where people are paranoid and fearful, where community trust is depleted, and where the forces of education and rationality are being run out of town. Ron DeSantis escalates his authoritarian purge: GOP bounty hunters are the next frontier 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Facts and rationality are direct threats to the authoritarian ideology and must be crushed under the heel. Fox News passes Trump's loyalty test: It's about more than lying — it's about teaching how to lie 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Yet the human distinctive is not found in the random firing of neurons; it is found in self-conscious rationality, and this does not develop until well after birth. Opinion | For legal and ethical guidance on abortion, let’s look to Europe 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z “Countries with rationality would think of the interests of their own people instead of cooperating with the US’ futile stunt.” EXPLAINER: What does an Olympic diplomatic boycott achieve? 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Lynch brought a sober rationality to stock selection. Column: Legendary investment guru Peter Lynch says move to index funds is a 'mistake.' He's wrong 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z There's the idea that rationality is the highest expression of our humanity. A neuroscientist explains why striving for efficiency is a bad idea 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z I think it would take us perhaps 10 years to rebalance the GOP toward that side of rationality and away from the radicals. Former "Anonymous" Trump aide Miles Taylor: Let's unite to make politics boring again 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z At best, an election is a collective gut reaction that is derived as much from deep-seated biases and misinformation as by rationality and serious research. America, the ungovernable? 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z “Sacrifices are made for the greater good. Not for the squeaky, loud wheel over here who puts rationality and science aside because they want to make a statement.” Opinion | Florida’s Republican lawmakers deliver another blow for DeSantis against the common good 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z This viewpoint on conspiracy theorists and vaccine skeptics isn't just dismissive of those who find themselves on the wrong side of "rationality." Why blaming vaccine hesitancy on conspiracy theorists is harmful to democracy 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Look, rationality is something that did come after we had life regulatory systems. A neuroscientist explains why striving for efficiency is a bad idea 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z The good news for Pedersen and Juarez is that they will soon have an ally in rationality. Seattle voters say, ‘That’s enough!’ 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Toward the end of his new book, he suggests rationality should be taught in schools as the "fourth R," alongside reading, writing, and arithmetic. Book review: Steven Pinker on the power of the rational mind 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Agency is not being eliminated; it is being reconfigured in the image of an instrumental rationality, a market-driven model that conceals its own aggression in the name of choice, meritocracy and individual interests. How higher education can win the war against neoliberalism and white supremacy 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z American politics appears to be in a crisis of rationality, one driven by duplicitous political actors. Why blaming vaccine hesitancy on conspiracy theorists is harmful to democracy 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z But the majority of cases, your rationality is still bound in its day to day operation to what we are as human beings, in terms of its fundamental regulation. A neuroscientist explains why striving for efficiency is a bad idea 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z "Rationality," the book, and rationality, the ideal, are about not about starting a fight but having a conversation. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z In fact, the book's early chapters can be read as a kind of rationality primer, focusing on deductive and inductive logic, rational choice theory, and various branches of statistics. Book review: Steven Pinker on the power of the rational mind 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z This is a vision driven not by profits, instrumental rationality, and military interests but by the battle over democracy itself. How higher education can win the war against neoliberalism and white supremacy 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Despite the undeniable power of the sort of rationality he describes, many of the deepest insights in the history of science, math, music and art strike their originators in moments of epiphany. Review | The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z I accept Steven Pinker's idea that rationality is really a great achievement that we have, and it's good to make use of it — which is not always the case. A neuroscientist explains why striving for efficiency is a bad idea 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z I do think that probably there is some good that can come from popular culture and journalism glorifying rationality when it is deployed in pursuit of goals that we can agree are worthy. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z For example: If rationality is so great — if it can save lives — why do we so often behave irrationally? Book review: Steven Pinker on the power of the rational mind 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The robotic language of instrumental rationality is everywhere in higher education. How higher education can win the war against neoliberalism and white supremacy 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Pinker recognizes that rationality “is not just a cognitive virtue but a moral one.” Review | The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z However, we equate efficiency with rationality and with intelligence, because we think of efficiency as meaning one particular thing. A neuroscientist explains why striving for efficiency is a bad idea 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z He talked to Salon via Zoom about mansplaining, why rationality gets a bad rap and what he learned from getting called out on social media. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z "Chairman Chu should lead the party's legislators to use professionalism and rationality to ask questions and exercise supervision," the party said. Scuffles in Taiwan parliament, premier blocked from podium in COVID dispute 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z This widespread assault on rationality and truth is part of an image-based and ocular pedagogy engaged in a politics of falsehoods and erasure. How higher education can win the war against neoliberalism and white supremacy 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z This is a shame, since possessing the right sort of moral character is arguably a precondition for using rationality in beneficial ways. Review | The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z But it doesn't mean that efficiency goes with rationality. A neuroscientist explains why striving for efficiency is a bad idea 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z At least since the Romantic movement, rationality has been contrasted with enjoyment, emotion, human relationships, which is just an error. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Physicists pride themselves on their rationality, yet they are as prone to existential dread as the rest of us, if not more so. Death, Physics and Wishful Thinking 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z It also would bolster the legitimacy and rationality of turning back migrants at the border, many or most of whom do not have legitimate claims under asylum rules. Opinion | Immigration reform is back at square one. But the way forward is clear. 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Progress was once defined for my generation as moving onward and upward, often alone — toward more accumulation, more success, a finer-tuned rationality and proud independence. Opinion | Sally Rooney’s surprising read of the shifting millennial zeitgeist 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z "Such citizens' assemblies aren't influenced by lobbyists and it's not politicians there who are afraid of not being re-elected, it's just people using their rationality." German election: Hunger strikers want greater action on climate change 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Rationality is often flipped on its head, where it seems like the least rational people are operating under a guise of rationality. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z In this regard, Boyle, 72, is sticking with a theme that has powered much of his fiction: rationality in collision with our feral side. T.C. Boyle, prophet-satirist of human folly, is back on his chimp thing 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Post-Trump, we let ourselves hope that the new president could heal and soothe, restore a sense of rationality, decency and sanity. Opinion | Drowning Our Future in the Past 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z These are positive, humane and respectful activities; therefore they satisfy the Kantian test of rationality. Opinion | The Texas abortion law is a classic case of might-makes-right in action 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z So either the Greeks weren't as obsessed with rationality as we like to think — or maybe we are missing something. Why is walking so good for the brain? Blame on the "spontaneous fluctuations" 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z It's what you talk about with the availability bias, and the ways that rationality is used in defense of things counterintuitive to us as a species. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z It is a sign that having secured a media narrative of "moderation" the Court feels free to stomp all over legal norms and basic rationality in order to impose a right-wing agenda. The Supreme Court's sloppiness reveals its radicalism 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Carlson's playing dumb act works primarily as permission to his audience to let go of any lingering attachment to good faith or rationality. Tucker Carlson plays dumb on TV — but his stupidity is strategically weaponized 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z After a long populist period that prized anti-establishment fervor and viral propaganda over pragmatism and expertise, Italians are suddenly enjoying a high season of rationality. Italians (Mostly) Embrace a ‘Green Pass’ to Prove Vaccination on Its First Day 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z It sounds great, but how are all these related, and why do we have to sacrifice our hard-earned rationality to get them? Why is walking so good for the brain? Blame on the "spontaneous fluctuations" 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z There should be, I think, the promotion of norms of rationality. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z The title was a salient message suggesting that outrageous political stunts confronting rationality will attain infamy. Opinion | Loudoun could have an ‘Inherit the Wind’ moment 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z This isn't about trying to deceive anyone, so much as it's about taking a hammer to the very idea that words mean things, facts matter, and rationality is important. Tucker Carlson plays dumb on TV — but his stupidity is strategically weaponized 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman on Sunday called for “compromise and rationality” to secure a deal after two days of failed discussions last week. OPEC+ meeting yet to resume amid Saudi-UAE standoff 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, energy minister of Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil exporter in OPEC, called on Sunday for “compromise and rationality” to secure a deal. OPEC+ resumes oil policy talks amid Saudi-UAE standoff 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z The tools of rationality should be part of the curriculum from early on. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Saudi Arabia’s energy minister sought on Sunday to push back against UAE’s opposition to a proposed OPEC+ deal, calling for “compromise and rationality” to get unanimity when the group meets again on Monday. Oil drops as lack of OPEC+ unity hangs over market 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Education in this sense must free itself from the technocratic obsessions with a deadening instrumental rationality, a regressive emphasis on standardization, training for the workplace and the memorizing of facts. Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: Resistance is still possible 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z For those of us who believe in the rationality of the price system, Tom Boswell is a problem. ‘The best baseball writer of them all’: Colleagues, readers toast Thomas Boswell as he retires 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z It's fun to laugh at Trump's own appointees privately blasting his views as "insanity," but it's becoming clear that actually, there's a nefarious rationality to what Trump was — and is — doing. DOJ emails and the "pure insanity" of Democrats "moving forward" without accountability for Trump 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z On the other hand, I think a case could be made that the tools of rationality are a prerequisite to everything else, and so they should be prioritized. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Greene’s editors, headed by Sewell Chan, editor of The Times editorial pages, praised him for his cool rationality and rejection of intemperate ideology. L.A. Times' Robert Greene awarded Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Be that as it may, Democrats should keep the promise, for the sake of economic fairness and rationality. Opinion | Happy 80th, Bob Dylan! We’re thinking about the government taxing you more. 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Republicans are done with democracy, and turning towards authoritarian politics that reject rationality altogether, in favor of a politics of raw power and domination. CNN's Rick Santorum dilemma and the Republican pundit paradox 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z In fact, the tension in Mondrian’s work between rationality and sensuousness led the critic David Sylvester to detect in it a “suppressed violence.” Perspective | There’s rhythm in this Piet Mondrian masterpiece. Is there also code? The rules, the infrastructure of rationality has to be fortified, because we can't count on the rationality of every last individual. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z That idea that fallible humans could predict the future trajectory of largely unformed young people struck the writer as relying more on superstition and fear than on science or rationality, the writer contended. L.A. Times' Robert Greene awarded Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z For all the calls to “rationality,” such policing seems knee-jerkingly reflexive. Column: You know what's not rational? Telling people how to act while vaccinated 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z It’s introducing some rationality to an irrational marketplace. Column: An 800% markup for blood work? It's time to standardize medical test prices 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z To be dropped into such a world and not be persistently open to religious possibilities seems much more like prejudice than rationality. Opinion | Can the Meritocracy Find God? 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z And though his hero was rationality embodied, Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle himself believed in worlds beyond this world and the possibility of communicating with them. Sherlock's a mess. Watson's a snob. The youngest players of 'The Irregulars'? Extraordinary 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Taking all these factors into account, the Republican Party is unlikely to see an outbreak of mass rationality on gun rights. Opinion | If there were ever an issue where conscience should rule, it is this one 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z It’s time for rationality and democracy to prevail. Opinion | We can’t let the gun imperialists win again 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z The incongruity of the punishment questions the rationality of our entire criminal justice system. You can buy it, so why is it still illegal to grow marijuana? 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z It's an especially offensive argument to be made in defense of Trump, a man who is all id and no rationality. Impeachment sends Republican senators scrambling: Trump makes the GOP squirm with a flailing defense 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Deterrence, however, presupposes rationality, and perhaps a conscience, neither of which would feature in any future iteration of the 45th president. Opinion | It still doesn’t make sense to impeach and convict Donald Trump 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z "We need to get away from the idea that logic and rationality is always the most persuasive argument," said Hollie Smith, an assistant professor of science and environmental communication at the University of Oregon. Why is science so polarizing? Blame the way we talk about it. 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z And yet few in the Senate, Rand Paul is an exception, are speaking up about the wastefulness and lack of planning and rationality in relief measures that are in no way means-tested or targeted. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Last month, Wang said he hoped the election of Biden would allow the United States' China policy to "return to objectivity and rationality." World Digest: Jan. 2, 2021 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z "From a dehumanization perspective, hostility conveys that a person is perceived or treated by another as if they are foolish, irrational, or flawed, which reflects the denial of human qualities such as intelligence and rationality." "Maternal hostility" may predict whether you mistreat your adult romantic partners 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z For some of us, watching prominent conservatives turn against rationality and democracy is not just disappointing; it is disorienting. Opinion | The moral hypocrisy of conservative leaders is stunning 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z In a new book, Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science, a lightly fictionalized memoir, I reveal, perhaps too candidly, how my rationality, such as it is, is entangled with my desires and fears. Distrust Authorities, Including Me 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z They subscribed to a tamed religion that amounted to a sensible moral code, and believed rationality and science would lead the new country they created into an enlightened future. Math doesn’t lie 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Most of these arguments involve the naïve projection of the pundit's own laudable personal honesty, decency and rationality onto Republican figures who manifestly share none of those traits. Are you sure Trump's plan to steal the election has failed? You shouldn't be 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z One cannot try to free them from the cult by using rationality and reason. Chris Hedges on the task ahead: Will Biden surrender to plutocrats and paralysis? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Originally conceived as a shadowy counterpoint to the Age of Enlightenment’s sunny rationality, Gothic novels have lurked the literary gloom for over 250 years. This fall, get your fill of Gothic fiction with these 6 audiobooks 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Frighteningly, the pandemic of paranoia and misinformation is far more resistant to science, facts and rationality. United over masks we stand, divided we fall 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z But in a region in which the “Curse of the Bambino” became as accepted a part of the New England canon as Paul Revere’s ride, when has rationality been central to the discussion? 'The common denominator is stupidity': Mookie Betts, the Babe and a Pissah-ed off city 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z It discredits verifiable fact, science, law and rationality. Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett: Another step toward Christian fascism 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z She doesn’t want to discuss specifics, but admits that her rationality worked against her. Laura Veirs on surviving her divorce: 'My life is strangely awesome' 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z If Trump is showcasing his brand of defiant individualism, Biden is seeking to demonstrate his rationality and willingness to heed experts. Campaign of contrasts: Trump’s raucous crowds vs. Biden’s distanced gatherings 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z That this acts as more protection than a mask or potentially a vaccine is a fantasy that is impervious to science, to evidence, to any rationality. Are you a complete covidiot? It's what the government wants of all of us | Suzanne Moore 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z The whole process couldn't be better designed to break down a person's emotional defenses or remaining tendrils of rationality, and indeed, it's wise to assume that's exactly the purpose. Were Don Jr. and Kimberly "coked up"? Maybe not, but it's all part of the fascist tradition 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Denying the science requires dismissing what scientists are saying, and the easiest way to do that is by questioning their motives, impartiality, and rationality. Why COVID deniers and climate skeptics paint scientists as alarmist 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Reality for Trump is not defined by data or rationality but by his own needs and wants. Would-be dictator Donald Trump would be unstoppable in a second term. That must not happen 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Is the solution to build powerful Black nations by imitating a history of European capitalist domination and aspiring to false notions of “rationality” as espoused by European philosophy and science? In Nigeria, colonial thinking affects everyone. It is time we found new heroes | Eniola Anuoluwapo Soyemi 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z But with the fall of the opinion class, the mask rips off, revealing politics as little but clashes between competing cults of information that primarily convey values in terms of emotionality, rather than rationality. Letterheads: social media and the end of discourse 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z There is the cool rationality of right-wing Twitter. Opinion | Trump is our ‘boy in the bubble’ — a right-wing information bubble 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z “Players,” wrote Walker of the board game, “do not expect consistency, but they do expect rationality. Sometimes any excuse will do.” Column: Game theory not chaos rules the Trump White House. Let's no longer play 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z When you put those together, rationality goes right out the window. It’s all about the economy, so it’s all about corona 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z This episode illustrates how Robinson helped to bring rationality into a field in which emotions often run high. Julian Perry Robinson (1941–2020) 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z We are no longer a shining beacon of rationality or democracy for the rest of the world. The Things We've Lost in the Pandemic 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The pandemic presents an opportunity to rethink the rationality of our socio-economic model and to replace it with a more resilient one. Reboot the economy for resilience 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z "Unfortunately," wrote Córdova, "we need a global disaster to remember the importance of rationality in public discourse." Harmful tweets from high places: Why Is Twitter acting now? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z “There is,” Baick says, “something about the spring that goes against rationality.” Mid-April in America is an unforgiving time, and now this 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z They refreshingly criticize their discipline for not recognizing that its use of ‘risk’, ‘uncertainty’ and ‘rationality’ doesn’t match that of lay people. Surviving Hiroshima, humanity’s footprints, and the truth about stem cells: Books in brief 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Bizarrely, and predictably, the tech people offer tech fixes for our shredded civic fabric: “a Marshall Plan of rationality,” say, or “crowdfunding private planes to fly over red counties and drop leaflets.” Review | Inside the unnerving world of Silicon Valley — and how it invaded cyberspace 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z But the court rejected the argument, saying the "right to equality is a right to rationality". India army takes 'great leap' towards equality 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z This is a time for rationality, not rumours. Coronavirus updates: US flies out its Diamond Princess passengers as China cases pass 70,000 – live news 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z “The more I acted the Strong Female Lead,” she writes, “the more I became aware of the narrow specificity of the characters’ strengths – physical prowess, linear ambition, focused rationality. Musical notes: Scorsese, Madonna, and the awfulness of millennium pop 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z But the more I acted the Strong Female Lead, the more I became aware of the narrow specificity of the characters’ strengths — physical prowess, linear ambition, focused rationality. Opinion | I Don’t Want to Be the Strong Female Lead 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z As Stewart puts it, “Rarely has an artist been able to combine rationality, measure, and science with a near-melodramatic theatrical sense of presentation as Piranesi.” Review | What ruins can teach us about beauty and decay 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z In the 18th and 19th centuries, Europe’s classical revival sought to reconnect to an idealised past, alluding to values of order, rationality and morality. Will Trump make architecture great again? The dark history of dictator chic 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z “It’s my job to bring more rationality, but never forget the irrational side,” he said. In Paris, a Mathematician Confronts the Political Odds 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The idea that enough Republican senators would have an attack of conscience, or even the rationality and decency, to call for witnesses in a trial was always a long shot. Lamar Alexander's starring role: Why a retiring Tennessee senator took the fall for Trump 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z One possibility is that the general public may understand rationality better than their choices in scientific experiments suggest. When "Reasonable" Trumps "Rational" 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z An editorial in the Communist Party-affiliate Global Times stated that “rationality and unity” are needed to battle the virus. China silent amid growing doubts over coronavirus origins 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Yet, the most consequential job, now capable of extinguishing multiple species on the planet based on one person's decision, is not required to possess even basic rationality. Yale psychiatrist: Trump attacked Iran because he’s a “cowardly person with fragile sense of self” 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z “Politics is where rationality and irrationality meet. As well as passion.” In Paris, a Mathematician Confronts the Political Odds 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah, the ranking Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee, said he believed the changes would bring “rationality” to federal bureaucracy. Analysis: Trump’s Move Against Landmark Environmental Law Caps a Relentless Agenda 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z On the surface, the distinction between reasonableness and rationality seems like hairsplitting; Latin ratio means to reason. When "Reasonable" Trumps "Rational" 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z ‘Computational rationality: A converging paradigm for intelligence in brains, minds, and machines.’ Government call for science ‘weirdos’ prompts caution from researchers 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Reasonableness, or rationality, is one test to which we can subject inegalitarian systems or rules. The Equality Conundrum 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Such candidates promise to add a certain je ne sais quoi to the political fray — something intangible at the nexus of rigor, rationality, creativity and perseverance. In Paris, a Mathematician Confronts the Political Odds 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The note also argued that market prices continue to suggest undue faith in “Iranian rationality and U.S. restraint.” Oil prices spike, Dow dives after U.S. airstrike kills top Iranian military leader 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Differences between rationality and reasonableness also extend to the language people use on the news, on TV, and in books covering languages spoken in one sixth of the world today. When "Reasonable" Trumps "Rational" 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z He believed, he says, in the rationality of markets, the logic of supply and demand, and was “at the time, more of my father’s son.” Teach for America to Senate president: Ferguson to step into biggest role yet 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z I also wonder: In embracing miracles, don’t we reject our own rationality? Opinion | Was the Virgin Mary a Virgin? Does It Matter? 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z One residing close to rationality, 10 on the side of fanaticism. The spectacular highs and lows of Rory McIlroy, as judged by the "RORS" system - Golf Digest 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z She warned that the type of fear that she said Mr. Trump exploits was particularly dangerous because “it overrides rationality.” Marianne Williamson is adamant: ‘Newsflash! I’m the most electable candidate’ 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z In each case, rationality is represented as individual-focused, analytic and abstract, linked with words such as “self-interest,” “agent” and “numbers.” When "Reasonable" Trumps "Rational" 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Granted, you just finished watching a movie about a Brooklyn maid becoming the Princess of Winshire in "A Crown for Christmas," but now is not the time for rationality. A man's guide to surviving Hallmark's "Countdown to Christmas" marathon - Golf Digest 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z “And she drew on the diaries for her novels, which explore the notion of obsession, guilt and murder and reject rationality and logic for the darker elements of human personality.” Diaries expose ‘strong brew’ of Ripley novelist Patricia Highsmith’s dark thoughts 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z After all, when rationality still held place in America, it was a tolerable gag. Justin Trudeau’s Victory Was Narrow, but Still Significant 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z During the twentieth century, a determined effort was made to reconstruct economics on the basis of rationality and scientific methods, with all value judgments excised. The New Economics: Data, Inequality, and Politics 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The distinction between rationality and reasonableness in moral philosophy and the law runs deep. When "Reasonable" Trumps "Rational" 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z “We hope that certain people in the United States will return to rationality as soon as possible,” Hua said. China says world 'shocked' at Trump adviser Navarro's pen name for books 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Creative individuals and undeviating purpose and rationality achieve joy and fulfillment. In extreme crises, conservatism can turn to fascism. Here's how that might play out 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z She added: “Her combination of perceptiveness and rationality was an ornament to public life, something we couldn’t afford to lose, and yet she’s gone. At least there is her book.” Award-winning columnist Deborah Orr dies aged 57 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s vital that we slow down, and bring rationality, understanding, a kind of thoughtfulness to what is unfolding before our eyes at speed. Transcript: James Stavridis 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z She added that political leaders should be able to engage in both rationality and emotion. Ocasio-Cortez defends crying during public speeches: Emotion is 'inextricable to good leadership' 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z His definition of AI reduces this quality to instrumental rationality. Raging robots, hapless humans: the AI dystopia 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z After these four days in Manchester, it’s difficult to escape the impression that this kind of rationality is going rapidly out of fashion. Raising hopes and denying gropes: Tory conference leaves no fantasy untouched 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z In other words, they won as they have all season — just as rationality and normal baseball expectations said they would not. Perspective | The Nationals’ wild-card win was both thrilling and emotionally exhausting. Of course it was. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z To assume that Trump fired Bolton because of some long-term or deep-rooted philosophical disagreement about US foreign policy, as opposed to a whim, risks imposing a rationality on events where no such thing may exist. What John Bolton’s exit reveals about Donald Trump’s foreign policy priorities 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z "Both rationality & emotion are inextricable to good leadership, which balances the two," she said. Ocasio-Cortez defends crying during public speeches: Emotion is 'inextricable to good leadership' 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z They are endangering our very survival in pursuit of profit, and undermining the faith in truth, rationality and the scientific method that – surely – will be critical to surviving these crises. We scientists must rise up to prevent the climate crisis. Words aren’t enough | Claire Wordley and Charlie Gardner 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Consequently, more of them are choosing science over stories and rationality over belief. Opinion | Education, not Trump, is the reason for the decline in religious participation 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Bashar was a quiet young man whose shy exterior concealed a calculating and determined ambition: He boasted to Tlass about his “detachment, rationality and coldness in tackling all matters, whether private or public.” Review | A view of Syria’s civil war, from Assad’s inner circle 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z One thing is clear: intuition and rationality are not necessarily opposites. Can We Rely on Our Intuition? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “The U.S. side should stop its ugly farce and bullying, and deal with China with a little more rationality and objectivity before the situation goes too far.” Trump says U.S. has advantage in escalating trade war with China 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s not just cyclists who welcome a design that offers “clarity and rationality,” Ricks said. Seattle could be next to try Dutch-style bike-friendly intersection design 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z And this has implications for his political followers, who must abandon morality or rationality or both. Opinion | Republican leaders are shilling for a bigot 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z He added that the party needed to “focus on the dreams of young people, rationality, rule of law.” Opposition’s win in Istanbul’s do-over race for mayor hands Erdogan a decisive defeat 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z An Italian newspaper ran an interview this week with Chris Patten in which he said Johnson was the apotheosis of a “collapse of rationality, of the relationship between the facts and what we believe”. Wake up, England: Boris Johnson’s ‘charm’ is just the arrogance of those born to rule | Suzanne Moore 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z People who have their grounding in reality and rationality are now losing ground to him. Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee: Trump's mental health is now a "national and global emergency" 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Regan showdown, often framing the anchor as a symbol of Chinese toughness and rationality. Anchors from China’s state TV and Fox are facing off 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z In an original policy issued a year ago, Mizuho said it would provide financing to coal-fired power projects after verifying the technological efficiency and economic rationality. Japanese bank Mizuho to tighten financing norm for coal-fired plants 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z “I’m not necessarily going to prejudge their ideas until I hear them and understand the rationality for them.” Gender equity, violence bills get debate amid budget battle 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z As much as a story of science or technology, modern agriculture is a compromise between the unpredictability of nature and the rationality of capital. The price of plenty: how beef changed America 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z It may seem petty to complain about a fundraiser, he tells me, but “we are at a point in history when advocating for truth and rationality is a central issue”. Gwyneth Paltrow and Pete Buttigieg: a match made in intellectual hell | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The country’s economic rise reflected “the validity and rationality of its development path, showing its confidence in its path, theories, institutions and culture,” she said. Anchors from China’s state TV and Fox are facing off 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z But in Chambers, the indigenous people are the ones rejecting tradition and superstition in favor of rationality. Netflix’s horror series Chambers follows in Get Out’s footsteps 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The record declines in violent crime have done nothing to stay his ability to frighten the public beyond the borders of rationality. The Central Park Five, Criminal Justice, and Donald Trump 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z They really like experimentation and tend to be preoccupied with rationality. What a scholar learned from studying the world of life-hackers 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The warring parties in McEwan’s imagination are rationality and its discontents. Ian McEwan: ‘Who’s going to write the algorithm for the little white lie?’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Their beliefs are not compatible with one another in a way that is required for rationality. It's all a conspiracy! Have liberals succumbed to paranoid thinking on Trump, Russia and Mueller? 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Walker divides human life into different classes, claiming that the brains of those who sleep well display rationality while those who sleep badly will be irrational and even deviant. Why the sleep industry is keeping us awake at night 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z This progress has been facilitated by the work of activists, legislators, and policy advocates, who have coaxed the public into thinking about issues of criminal justice with more rationality and nuance. The Central Park Five, Criminal Justice, and Donald Trump 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z The lies fit a pattern, clamoring for war, and on both sides they suggested a society that had slipped the bonds of rationality and fallen completely to the post-fact order. Why Facebook’s pivot to privacy could backfire 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The purported “rationality” of the private prison-industrial complex could hardly withstand such an analysis. Time for a change: Can 2020 Democrats break free from the failures of neoliberalism? 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z If there’s anything that we need these days, it’s rationality, clarity and something resembling fairness. Perspective | A go-with-Flo fairness proposal 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Human civilisation seems to be entering a new phase we could call the “post-Enlightenment”, where rationality and the written word are being structurally replaced by images and emotions. If news is dying, who will safeguard democracy? | Hossein Derakhshan 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z It is well established that people are susceptible to a range of cognitive and psychological biases that stray decisions from rationality. How Drug Company Ads Downplay Risks 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z A global monument to the triumph of diplomatic rationality over militaristic paranoia is being pulled down. US briefing: State of the Union, Brazil dam and domestic violence laws 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z “If there is any sense and rationality, I say to the State Department: You must follow the order,” Mr. Maduro said. Venezuela’s Military Backs Maduro, as Russia Warns U.S. Not to Intervene 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z “The decision was made from the viewpoint of Hitachi’s economic rationality as a private enterprise,” the company, based in Japan, said. Hitachi to Cease Work on Nuclear Power Plant in North Wales 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z It said it was suspending the project "from the viewpoint of its economic rationality as a private enterprise". Hitachi to halt work on UK nuclear plant 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The images are “unduly gruesome” and could “overcome the jury’s rationality,” attorneys wrote in a court filing. Robert Durst murder trial is set for September 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z This, Johnson explains, is the problem of “bounded rationality.” The Art of Decision-Making 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z It appealed, Wu asserts, by oversimplifying complex problems and presuming economic rationality — that “the existing structure is the efficient structure.” Review | A call to save democracy by battling monopolies 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z We’re skeptical of all those faith traditions, so should we suspend our emphasis on science and rationality when we encounter miracles in our own tradition? Opinion | Professor, Was Jesus Really Born to a Virgin? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z But rationality has never been Donald Trump’s strong suit when it comes to dealing with the judiciary. If Trump is cornered, the judges he disdains may finally bring him down | Walter Shapiro 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Mathematical rationality is based on much more than proof, whatever we think proof is. Proofs and Guarantees 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Whiteness has granted certainty about one’s place in society, one’s own inherent goodness, one’s own rationality, one’s human capacity, one’s ability to engage in self-governance. Race, class and justice: After the midterms, a new way forward for Democrats 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Is it a worm in the apple of rationality? Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Why should we suspend our emphasis on science and rationality just because of weakly evidenced, false claims in other religions? Opinion | Professor, Was Jesus Really Born to a Virgin? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Scholars provide a variety of explanations: Some point to the limited foresight, knowledge and rationality of voters. How the Trust Trap Perpetuates Inequality 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Here is the reason that Trump’s deception is so destructive: He is asking for voters to ignore consistency, rationality and morality in the midst of a midterm campaign that he has infected with bigotry. Opinion | The poison of Trumpism is tainting the GOP 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Scholars argued that Greek and Roman artists had left their buildings and sculptures bare as a pointed gesture—it both confirmed their superior rationality and distinguished their aesthetic from non-Western art. The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Assigning each house a number simultaneously advanced two bedrock principles of Enlightenment thought: rationality and equality. Opinion | Where the Streets Have No Names, the People Have No Vote 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Civic virtue has been transformed into economic rationality. Why the left must go beyond electoral politics: Chris Hedges and David Talbot in conversation 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The dissenting opinion came from Justice Indu Malhotra, the only female judge on the bench, who argued that rationality had no place in matters of religion. Indian court rules Hindu temple can't ban females of menstruating age - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z "Issues of deep religious sentiments should not be ordinarily interfered by the court... Notions of rationality cannot be invoked in matters of religion," she said in her dissenting opinion. India women can enter prominent temple 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z He told BBC Newsnight: "I think that no deal is not an option. We are sure that the rationality will prevail." Brexit compromise still possible - Tusk 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z She knows that risk assessment is a basic test of rationality that she and so many other parents flunk. Opinion | The symptoms of America’s fall into unfocused furiousness 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z In the meantime, the relative rationality that Obama managed to inspire — Trump’s concerted effort to address the most urgent international problem facing the United States — has disappeared. Opinion | Trump’s foreign policy has devolved into chaos 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z But aren’t those populist movements also explained by a kind of desperate rationality? Francis Fukuyama: ‘Trump instinctively picks racial themes to drive people on the left crazy’ 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Human decision-making and rationality depend on a lot more than just following rules, which machines are good at. The Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion to put more artificial intelligence into its weaponry 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z It has become a cliche to celebrate the rugged individualism, cold rationality and truth-seeking courage of the scientific pioneers. How feelings took over the world 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Barash punctures human paradigms such as the ‘anthropic principle’, rationality and even selfhood, marshalling considerable research and considered reasoning as he goes. Ode to a tiny porpoise, a kaleidoscopic tour of light, and a visit to the fossil market: Books in brief 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Instability makes it difficult to plan, and when American policy jumps from one point to another without much rationality, it makes it difficult for companies in any country to make plans for expansion. Would Trump’s impeachment kill the economy? Our panel of experts says nah, not really 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z The political aim in war places limits on the use of military force and imposes rationality on it. Why Donald Trump’s misunderstanding of military power could lead to disaster 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z “I can understand all of the rationalities,” says Charlie Sykes, a longtime conservative radio host in Wisconsin who spent years trying to persuade Ryan to run for president before turning sharply against him over Trump. This Is the Way Paul Ryan’s Speakership Ends 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Separating rationality from emotion is no longer possible. How feelings took over the world 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Even those who are genuinely committed to alternatives to western rationality and science can wield denialist rhetoric that apes precisely the kind of scientism they despise. Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z It turned out that both rationality and ridicule were somewhat effective in reducing participants' belief in the theory, while empathy was largely ineffective. Why do people believe the moon landing hoax or other conspiracy theories? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z It repeats high officials’ calls for “calm and rationality”. In its trade war with America, China dials down the hype 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z It’s that they claim to value a sanitized idea of logic and rationality above all else. The gospel of Elon Musk, according to his flock 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z That’s because the process of trade itself may enhance human rationality. People Aren’t Rational, and That’s Why We Need Free Trade 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The report found, not surprisingly, that the most common way people kill themselves is with a gun, which is another argument to bring some rationality to gun laws. Opinion | A wake-up call for new approaches to suicide prevention 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z His mistake was to judge it in terms of rationality. When the confetti is swept away we are left with a deeply divided country | Andrew Rawnsley 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z But they conduct argument “on an assumption of goodwill and rationality”. The couple who teach us to talk across the political divide | Simon Jenkins 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z This presumes a kind of rationality that is not displayed by your typical violent, impulsive, drug-addled criminal. States Turn to an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z But the companies that produce these brands are guilty of crimes against rationality. Opinion | Are you anti-GMO? Then you’re anti-science, too. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z And he put all he said in the context of a thoroughly Gallic nod to rationality. Opinion | Macron treats Congress to a full-scale takedown of Trumpism 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z It's time this country explored a precise high-pressure pulsation algorithm to intelligently perfuse a little rationality into the healthcare market. Another downside to U.S. healthcare system: Way more opportunities for fraud 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z But as medical experts shrink from opioids, “there’s no rationality” to the way that is being implemented, says the outgoing APS president, David Williams, a psychologist at University of Michigan. Enduring pain: how a 1996 opioid policy change had long-lasting effects 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z When we let it override our rationality, we make things much worse. The looming epidemic threat | Jonathan Quick 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z We know all too well that being tech-savvy doesn’t guarantee balanced rationality. Cosmic Thinker Worries about the Ends of Science and Humanity 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z In that case, the Fed’s rationality wouldn’t be enough. No winners in tit-for-tat on trade 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Douthat applies a broader significance to the rationality of irrational individuals than is truly warranted. Opinion | The Edges of Reason 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z The great Enlightenment principles of modernity—liberalism, secularism, rationality, equality, free markets—do not provide the kind of tribal group identity that human beings crave and have always craved. An excerpt from 'Political Tribes' 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Does a day like Monday in the markets demonstrate anything about the rationality, or otherwise, of trading securities? How to Bear a Bull Market: The Psychology of Volatile Securities Trading 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z At the Disco, included the line: “It’s much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.” As F.B.I. Took a Year to Pursue the Nassar Case, Dozens Say They Were Molested 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Such comments harm the scientific community’s efforts to propagate scientific thoughts and rationality through critical education and modern scientific research, the petition said, and also diminish the country’s image internationally. Indian scientists outraged by minister’s anti-Darwin comments 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z After all, if the entire world is busy congratulating the despot on his newfound rationality, he might well take that as an opportunity to get to work on furthering his nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Editorials from around New England 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z We lose the capacity for empathy, rationality, proportionality and attention to the longer-term consequences of our actions. Fear now rules Trump’s US. It’s what drives the president too | Tony Schwartz 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z And its attempts to insulate miners from the forces of economic rationality are akin to nobles' old feudal protections. Perspective | Bitcoin is teaching libertarians everything they don’t know about economics 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Third, deterrence theory assumes optimal rationality on the part of decision-makers. Nuclear deterrence is a myth. And a lethal one at that 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z One such panel this year met to sleepily critique President Trump’s economic policies, but it was overshadowed by another panel, two ballrooms away, that jolted a profession that prides itself on cool rationality. Wielding Data, Women Force a Reckoning Over Bias in the Economics Field 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Whatever glimmer of rationality and decency we spot will be either illusory or fleeting. Opinion | Guidelines for news-watching and staying sane in 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Despite the best bipartisan effort to bring rationality to the process, however, Virginia finds itself in a mess. Virginia Voting Mess Was Never Supposed to Happen After Bush v. Gore 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z But as we’ve learned over the years, there are plenty of forces other than rationality in the world, and humans don’t often do the rational thing. Economically speaking, gift-giving can be a waste of money 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z They define a different kind of rationality — one based on Mr. Keynes’ views, not on calculations of utility — in ambiguous situations. What Is Bitcoin Really Worth? Don’t Even Ask. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z No such rationality exists in the Trump White House, no such cost-benefit analyses are conducted, no such vision for what the president wants as his legacy exists. Trump being Trump, there will be no course correction after Roy Moore’s defeat 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Rather, it constitutes a salient reminder of the ongoing need for collective rationality in times of ethical and methodological crisis. How Viennese scientists fought the dogma, propaganda and prejudice of the 1930s The message here is clear: Republicans aren’t going to defy their mad king over anything as mushy and amorphous as democratic norms, rationality or national honor. Opinion | Trump Is Cracking Up 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Second, you cannot overstate the appetite, desire and thirst for some sense of unity, and just rationality, as opposed to the divisiveness and chaos that this president has brought. Six Democrats From Outside Washington Have a Message for Their Party 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z |
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