NEOCLASSICAL economics is built on the assumption that humans are rational beings who have a clear idea of their best interests and strive to extract maximum benefit (or “utility”, in ...

I teach a course titled “Ideas of Human Nature.” When we talk about reason and rationality, my students are respectful but restrained; when it’s time to deal with unreason and irrationality ...

by Susan Jacoby (Pantheon; $26)Identifying herself as a “cultural conservationist” (but by no means a cultural conservative), Jacoby laments the decline of middlebrow American culture and ...

His first chapter, on the coming of war, centers on Jean Jaurès, the French left-wing politician whose murder on the eve of war set the tone for the “unreason” that was to engulf France. His ...

We’re watching America turn unreason against itself on a massive scale, and the whole world is watching too. By the day now, even by the hour, we’re losing ground – the ground of reality and ...

Voices of Reason—and Unreason Susan Collins put on a clinic in thoroughness and justice. Democrats need to stand up to the screamers. By Peggy Noonan Share ...

The way the mentally ill are treated in Geel is unusual. At most times and in most places, caring for such people has been the responsibility of the biological family, which is not always kinder ...

Unreason prevails. In this we Bengalis are not unique; but in any conceivable international index of unreason we will probably score high. This perhaps has always been so.

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Another Historical Monument Sacrificed to the Forces of Unreason Latta House, a home built around 1800, hosted historical tours and living-history events. No longer. By Lori Lawing ...

Unreason is not outside reason, but precisely in it, invested and possessed by it.’ Foucault is ambivalent about psychoanalysis (the patient once more subjected to the will of the doctor), but he does ...