Mr. Glassner's latest book, "The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food is Wrong" (Ecco/HarperCollins $25.95), posits that misguided (and misguiding) gospelmongers are persuading Americans to eat according to ever more irrational notions and sillier motivations.
Since then, the irrational exuberance notion has provided new ammunition for those who argue that financial markets are not rational or efficient after all that markets are little more than casinos frequented by people with bipolar disorders.
The dangerously irrational neoconservative notion of a "clash of civilizations," taken from the Samuel Huntington book of the same name, coursed close to the surface of the Bush/Cheney Administration's worldview.
So why does a supposedly impartial, professional journalist insist on reducing the variegated socio-political conflict of Iraq to simple, lazy, and neo-orientalist notions depicting irrational warring between Shi'as and Sunnis?
Like them, he does this not by appealing to the purely irrational, but by developing a notion of reason that includes a dimension of historicity and takes into account the experience of art, literature, and religious and affective sentiments of various kinds.
Both of these admonitions have at their heart the notion that "liberals" are being irrational, unreasonable and rigid in refusing to accept the Senate health care bill.
Long gone is the irrational optimism of the 90's and the notion that technology alone can transform a business.
Locke, in part desiring to avoid these obvious difficulties or irrational and immoral failures of consent, introduced the notion of tacit consent (Locke 1990).
Fuller was "a strange, even irrational, and politically rather dangerous man," Danaher said, but the officer's notion of the indirect attack was profound.
Don Phillips, managing director of corporate strategy, research and communications at Morningstar, wrote an article called "The Third Rail" in Morningstar Advisor in October that questioned the whole notion of advisers being the rational counterweight to investors' more irrational behavioral tendencies.
