While considerable ink has been spilled describing how technology generally and applications such as Facebook and Twitter in particular reinforce tribalism, a curious related phenomenon has emerged ...

India, Jan. 24 -- Rationalism was meant to be a method, not an identity. It was to be the discipline of honest seeing, not another tribe of the like-minded. You question, you examine, you see clearly.

Ok I get it: the title of this piece reads very high and esoteric. But please do bear with me. I really think we're onto something. What I want to do today is to discuss Michael Oakeshott and explore ...

The triumph of the concept of rationalism, which lay at the center of the processes that formed our Western civilization from the 16 th century on, was not as swift or easy as it would seem to the ...

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This article looks at God and religion from the position of rationalism, an approach to life based on reason and evidence. Rationalism is an approach to life based on reason and evidence. Rationalism ...

One morning in the summer of 2015, I sat in a featureless office in Berkeley as a young computer programmer walked me through how he intended to save the world. The world needed saving, he insisted, ...