Word: rationale
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How can you predict the votes of the undecided? It's actually not that hard. Our brains generate automatic responses to most stimuli. As the psychologist Robert Zajonc wrote compellingly in 1980, "We do not just a see 'a house.' We see a 'handsome' house, an 'ugly' house, or a...
"The Klee Universe," running at Berlin's New National Gallery from Oct. 31 until Feb. 8, is an unprecedented attempt to present Klee's work in all its variety, with its dazzling array of themes and styles, rather than, like many previous exhibitions, focusing on specific facets of his oeuvre...
“The plaintiffs and the RIAA are seeking to punish him beyond any rational measure of the damage he allegedly caused,” Nesson wrote. “They do this, not for the purpose of recovering compensation for actual damage caused by Joel’s...
The U.S. has the highest percentage of its population behind bars of anybody in the world. Most of the people are locked up for non-violent drug offenses. Really every drug policy expert will say that this is a public health problem. Because it's been dumped onto the criminal...
But when she blurted out, “Alex, I think I’m conservative,” I realized that I had been deluding her with false hopes. I couldn’t bear to look at her. Clearly, this girl I had always thought of as an...