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Against the Great Unreason: On Critical Thinking, Feeling, and the Ruin of Public Life

“Critical thinking” has been so mauled by PowerPoint and platitude that one is tempted to retire the phrase and replace it with something less embalmed. Yet the thing itself—call it the discipline of judging what is true and what follows from it—remains indispensable. The philosophers and psychologists who have tried to say what it is tend to converge: it’s not mere cleverness, not mere “g…