Reason

I learned about philosopher Krista Lawlor's book, Being Reasonable: The Case for a Misunderstood Virtue, from a New Yorker article by Nikhil Krishnan. "In Defense of the Moderate" appealed to my sense of moderation, but I was conflicted about the degree I wanted to be reasonable in what so often seems to be a highly unreasonable world. Here's  a PDF file in case that link doesn't work for you. In Defense of the Moderate | The New Yorker Reading Krishnan's article, I wondered if being reasonable amounted to surrendering to the most extreme political, religious, and other sorts of factions…