In his new book, “Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason,” the British political economist William Davies argues that the age of the primacy of reason over feeling, which began with the ...

We are the product of the way we interpret the world around us. How we make sense of our surrounding environment, personally and professionally, serves as the foundation for every choice that we make.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: objectivity -- Detachment : the caning of James Gordon Bennett, the Penny Press, and objectivity's primordial soup -- Nonpartisanship : three shades of political ...