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  • Her new book "The Age of American Unreason" is about the anti-intellectual and anti-rational epidemics in America.

    "We're a Nation of Dunces" 2008

  • Her new book "The Age of American Unreason" is about the anti-intellectual and anti-rational epidemics in America.

    "We're a Nation of Dunces" 2008

  • Unreason, which is the offspring of jealousy, filled her mind.

    The Way of Ambition Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • Reason, the Creator Spirit who makes all things and gives them growth, or Unreason, which, lacking any meaning, strangely enough brings forth

    ID/Evolution 2009

  • We believe that at the beginning of everything is the eternal Word, with Reason and not Unreason. —

    ID/Evolution 2009

  • What Ahmadinejad knows is that there will always be a political place for what Michel Foucault called "the sovereign enterprise of Unreason."

    What Ahmadinejad Knows Bret Stephens 2010

  • Mischief was your midwife and Misrule your nurse, and Unreason brought you up at her feet - no other ancestry and rearing had you, you freakish homunculus, germinated outside of lawful procreation.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Ulysses 2009

  • We believe that at the beginning of everything is the eternal Word, with Reason and not Unreason. —

    ID/Evolution 2009

  • In The Politics of Unreason, Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab describe the KKK as having taken on the form of a fundamentalist crusade to "punish drunks, adulterers and other violators of the traditional moral code."

    Georgette Bennett, Ph.D.: One Nation Under God: Do You Need To Be A Good Christian To Be A Good President? Ph.D. Georgette Bennett 2012

  • Reason, the Creator Spirit who makes all things and gives them growth, or Unreason, which, lacking any meaning, strangely enough brings forth

    ID/Evolution 2009

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