After the UNC board of trustees denied her tenure, which was the only rational decision, there was a media and activist outcry and UNC reconsidered.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/07/no_author/on-nikole-hannah-jones/

Answers to these "why" questions come more easily if we dispense with the self-flattering delusion that we are a rational, enlightened, people prone to scientific thought.

Source: https://slashdot.org/story/23/04/16/2215228/how-should-ai-be-regulated?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Are Stanford and other admissions departments so obsessed with DEI credentials that civility and rational thought never enter the picture?

Source: https://patriotpost.us/articles/95917-stanford-law-not-quite-ready-for-the-bar-2023-03-23

A wave of stimulus measures unleashed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ahead of May’s election is fuelling a fresh bout of inflation even as the country’s new economic management team attempts to restore “rational” policymaking.

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/0e5520e2-27ac-44d0-9414-0076b1b5e2d9

Basic economics teaches that a rational business will make decisions that maximize its profits.

Source: https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2023/02/13/exxon-claims-it-will-make-no-profit-on-us1b-investment-in-gas-to-energy-project/

Black and white is not a valid way of rational thinking.

Source: https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-tries-to-signal-normalcy-as-ukraine-forces-advance1

Blacks people responded in a perfectly rational manner: they got their guns and blew the Klansmen away.

Source: https://ctmirror.org/2023/06/23/connecticut-gun-control-government-second-amendment/

But as with any cult of this nature, it is not rational thought that governs behavior, but the rush to go farthest to escape the wrath of the cult leader, even if the objective result is an electoral disaster.

Source: https://www.fcnp.com/2023/11/10/ah-democracy/

But if Paul is correct that “you cannot rationally choose to have a child based on what you think it will be like to have a child,” it seems eminently possible that you could make a rational choice based on what it was like a child.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/27/the-quickening-elizabeth-rush-book-review-the-parenthood-dilemma-gina-rushton

Defense attorney Charles Kenyon argued Jimenez was not rational at the time and in the throes of schizophrenia when he shot the teens.

Source: https://abc7.com/corona-movie-theater-shooting-2021-joseph-jimenez-insanity-trial-sentencing-prison/14173937/

Everyone rational wants to eliminate these thuggish groups.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-24/sheriff-los-angeles-deputy-gangs-constitution

“First, verify the credibility of sources and evaluate the content with a rational mind.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/israel-hamas-war-palestine-gaza-social-media-fake-news-misinformation-disinformation-twitter-x-facebook-tiktok-tech-firms-3840556?cid=cna_flip_070214

For many western leaders and journalists, it appears no rational answer is needed.

Source: https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2023/12/19/why-is-the-media-ignoring-evidence-of-israels-own-actions-on-7-october/

He called for a 'rational way' out of the crisis, which would be 'found if everyone is guided by the concept of common, comprehensive, joint and sustainable security, and continue dialogue and consultations in an equal, prudent and pragmatic manner'.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11880407/Xi-meets-Putin-today-boost-Russian-leader-days-ICC-issued-warrant-arrest.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Here, the shadows on the wall don’t speak to the bondage of empiricism but tell of the beautiful world beyond rational television programming.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/scared-of-the-dark-review-paul-gasgoigne-b2324107.html

His conservatism, and that of the movement he founded, were typical of the striving middle classes intent on technical competence and rational administration.

Source: https://catholicoutlook.org/opus-deis-ordinary-secularity/

How can we get to a rational, reasonable, nuanced and mutually-respectful national conversation about gun violence?

Source: https://www.vaildaily.com/entertainment/vail-symposium-to-host-two-talks-this-week-gun-violence-in-america-and-native-americans-essential-understanding/

I believe in G-d (also for rational reasons), and it is axiomatic that if there is a just G-d, there is an afterlife.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/columns/pragers-perspective/thoughts-on-a-milestone-birthday/2023/08/04/

If in future the UK does apply for EU membership, I would expect a rational EU to respond as follows.

Source: https://www.libdemvoice.org/britain-can-never-rejoin-the-eu-it-might-join-it-72394.html

“In due course, we’d have a rational discussion rather than kind of pushing this forth.”

Source: https://www.bcheights.com/2023/02/13/newton-residents-voice-opinions-for-against-override/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=newton-residents-voice-opinions-for-against-override