Human Reason Confounded by a Trumpian America

My veneration of human reason might be mocked as itself contrary to reason. With so much unreason afflicting the world. Yet what I revere is the idea of reason, for its own sake, for the crystalline beauty of it. But, yes too, for its salience in human affairs.

Some would retort we’re more creatures of emotion than reason. However, the two are not opposed, but a unified force, emotions being the impetus for deploying rationality. Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio discovered that brain injuries...