Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. By Steven Pinker. Viking. 432 pages. We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book.

In “Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters,” Pinker writes as if he’s part of an embattled minority, valiantly making the case that “the ability to use knowledge to ...

How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato, Yale University Press, 304 pages First, a surprise: John J. Mearsheimer thinks expanding NATO ...

The Chinese artist’s work, which is inspired by Leonardo da Vinci illustrations, will be housed in a former Soviet-era ...

Rationality is what keeps us sane in the messiness of life. Being able to stay rational through a difficult time, or just for as long as a simple argument, is a sort of safety vest we can wear to ...

Then support that decision with logic, facts and rationality—because the mind will always justify what the heart has already decided. - Josh Yudin, The Academy of Marketing. 11.

This week’s column returns to two recent topics of discussion: the electric vehicle (EV) tax credit and the proposed ban on TikTok. (Incidentally, in an ironic turn of events, I had my TikTok debut ...

It’s clearly illegal. It’s also not a human right. And America’s attempts to address it can surely be characterized as irrationality. The “it” is illegal immigration.

Freud’s words in 1923: "I belong to the race that in the Middle Ages was blamed for all the plagues, and such experiences have a sobering effect, and they ...

Nvidia (NVDA) is set to release its second quarter earnings on August 28 after the market close. Consensus estimates from Bloomberg shows analysts expect revenue to come in at $28.8 billion and ...

But there is a kind of rationality at play in the collective mind of North Korea’s leadership — and we in the West would do well to understand it.. To be rational, of course, is to know what ...

Soccer’s financial free-for-all may be ending. After years of lavish spending, European giants like Erling Haaland’s Manchester City and Jude Bellingham’s Real Madrid now face the prospect ...