International relations, as both a field of study and of operational activity, is based on a type of “rational conceit,” to borrow economist F. A. Hayek’s term. In this case, the conceit is that ...

I wrote this essay with Anthony Evans and Gideon Goldin. It is common to think that emotions interfere with rational thinking. Plato described emotion and reason as two horses pulling us in opposite ...

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Greene, director of Harvard University’s Moral Cognition Lab, discusses modern debates over individualist versus communitarian thinking and presents his readers with a roadmap to what he considers a ...

A look at why you may feel out of place around others, how early emotional messages fuel that feeling, and what helps you reconnect with yourself and the people in your life.

In his Jan. 31 op-ed, “The Ayn Rand Contradiction,” Rainer Zitelmann writes: “Her cultural significance comes not from her powers of rationality but rather her appeals to morals and emotions.” This ...

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There’s nothing like migration to reveal how things that seem natural may be artifacts of culture. When I left India for college in England, I was surprised to find that pinching my Adam’s apple ...