In a recent interview in the ‘Financial Times’, Sara Miller McCune, the co-founder (with her husband) of the renowned publishing group Sage, has stressed the central value of being able to think critically. As she says, ‘I don’t see how either an individual or society can flourish without education: without learning to think critically and politically, and to follow arguments.’
In his new book (‘Rationality: What it is. Why it seems scarce. Why it matters’), the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has argued in favour of
In a recent interview in the ‘Financial Times’, the writer Joyce Carol Oates responded to the question ‘What is the greatest challenge of our time?’