Let’s bring back critical thinking—because our country’s future depends on it

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Let’s bring back critical thinking—because our country’s future depends on it

I sometimes feel like I am an actor in a Borat movie, but I was never given a script. A bizarre scene is unfolding around me, and if the other actors were to fall silent and gaze upon me, expecting my line, I’d be speechless.  There seems to be a critical shortage of rational thought in our country. In our hands, we hold access to virtually all human knowledge—but it is peppered with disinformation. A worrisome percentage of the population elect…