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As a toast to diplomacy, rational thought and animal husbandry, “Whiskey” is what the world needs now — it did me some good, anyway.

By contrast, the 5th Circuit Court allowed the Texas law to take effect because it was a “rational” means of protecting children.

These positions moved, more or less persuasively, within the space of rational discourse; perceptive, well-informed people could profitably debate them.

But while it may be the rational thing for supporters to park their grievances during matches, football fandom has always been an emotional rather than rational pursuit.

Liberalism and socialism, by contrast, offer rational narratives about shared economic progress and greater equality which lack that kind of mythic power, and sound increasingly hollow when their promises are not fulfilled.