in reason

In an article in Reason magazine, the historian James J. Martin described the case as a “glittering press agent’s spectacle aimed at trying the personification of a World War II soldier’s legend, not a person with civil and constitutional rights.”

Icke’s Oedipus has an Obama-level of confidence in reason and reasonableness.

“During the first 10 years of the study I had believed ... that the Gombe chimpanzees were, for the most part, rather nicer than human beings,” she wrote in “Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey,” a 1999 book co-authored with Phillip Berman.

His appeal isn’t rooted in reason or fact; it’s a gut-level, emotionally charged force, a dark mythic archetype tapping into America’s discontent.

Endorsements are part of a stream of persuasion based on faith in reason.