Rationality

rationality emerges from a community of reasoners who spot each other’s fallacies.

logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation,

To be sure, I am among the first to insist that we can understand human nature only by considering the mismatch between the environment in which we evolved and the environment we find ourselves in today.

the public sphere is infested with fake news, quack cures, conspiracy theories, and “post-truth” rhetoric