unreason
noun
un·rea·son
ˌən-ˈrē-zᵊn 
ˈən-ˌrē-
: the absence of reason or sanity : irrationality, madness
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Its opening paragraph: For years, many of us have noted and analyzed the phenomenon of Bush hatred — and all the unreason, hysteria, and meanness packed into it.
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Oct. 2024
Hayek’s market seems to conjure a wondrous democracy of unreason.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
The country has entered what can only be characterized as an age of unreason, with large swaths of its population embracing wild conspiracy theories.
—Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2021
Like many politicians, Khan is trying to reason with a maelstrom of unreason.
—Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
My piece began, For years, many of us have noted and analyzed the phenomenon of Bush hatred — and all the unreason, hysteria, and meanness packed into it.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 May 2023
The slaughter of 20 million people grotesquely buttressed his insistence that conscious rationality co-exists with aggressive unreason and his skepticism toward naïve narratives of inevitable social and technological progress.
—Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
With its double binds and reversals, life in a pandemic feels beholden to dream logic, to the unreason of lying awake in the dark.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
There’s a lot of collective anguish lurking under all the electronic flame-throwing, bizarre behavior on campus, and other manifestations of social unraveling and descent into unreason.
—Nr Interview, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Oct. 2024
Hayek’s market seems to conjure a wondrous democracy of unreason.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
The country has entered what can only be characterized as an age of unreason, with large swaths of its population embracing wild conspiracy theories.
—Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2021
Like many politicians, Khan is trying to reason with a maelstrom of unreason.
—Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
My piece began, For years, many of us have noted and analyzed the phenomenon of Bush hatred — and all the unreason, hysteria, and meanness packed into it.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 May 2023
The slaughter of 20 million people grotesquely buttressed his insistence that conscious rationality co-exists with aggressive unreason and his skepticism toward naïve narratives of inevitable social and technological progress.
—Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
With its double binds and reversals, life in a pandemic feels beholden to dream logic, to the unreason of lying awake in the dark.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
There’s a lot of collective anguish lurking under all the electronic flame-throwing, bizarre behavior on campus, and other manifestations of social unraveling and descent into unreason.
—Nr Interview, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
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“Unreason.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unreason. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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