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My difficulty with language was symptomatic of greater limitations of reason. The terror itself proved every rational explanation inadequate. Our policies on Israel and the Palestinians were not themselves culpable, neither our program of economic sanctions nor our indefatigable allegiance to foreign oil. All of these causes were vapid because...
I hope that all members of the Harvard Community will join in rejecting Attorney General John Ashcroft’s message to critics of the Bush administration’s domestic anti-terrorism measures delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee last December. “To those who scare peace...
In a not always rational time we've come to accept a lot of Surrealism's illogic. One visitor at the show was reminded of how with his children recently, he'd watched a Disney cartoon in which Mickey Mouse and his friends saunter across a field of Dali's...
Fourth, it's hard to be rational about the irrational. Who can guess intelligently what Osama bin Laden might want to try next? How can you discourage a suicide bomber who is looking forward to being dead after killing you? Irrationality holds a treasured place in game theory, the branch...
Before we avoid skyscrapers in case they are hit by hijacked airplanes, we should consider other risks and what we are doing to avoid them. About 4,000 people die by accidental drowning every year. That's more than died on 9/11. Rationality cannot tell us precisely what it's...