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On Thursday, the State Department announced it would review the legal status of immigrants who praised, rationalized or made light of Kirk’s death.

Eugenics fell out of favor when the Nazis used it to rationalize the Holocaust and other genocidal policies.

There have been twisted efforts to rationalize what he said here, but the context of his entire sermon made his meaning quite clear.

But the novel’s truest setting is an emotional one, anyway; Berman’s gift is for revealing the ways that attachment warps into envy, and how we rationalize or ignore those emotions even while they consume us.

To rationalize his vote, Republican Rep. Isaac Schultz blithely argued: “The role of the church — the role of people of faith — is to care for our neighbors. Yes…But not in this instance, specifically.”