Is reason a way to uncover the truth? Or is it a weapon? Or is it both? “Some researchers are suggesting that reason evolved for a completely different purpose [than discovering the truth]: to win arguments. Rationality, by this yardstick (and irrationality too, but well get to that) is nothing more or less than a servant of the hard-wired compulsion to triumph in the debating arena.”Of course, this is the thesis of French social scientists—who else? But they seem to have some interested partners on this side of the pond. NYTimes.Finally, a proof for the superiority of a Jesuit education.