Rapid-fire information, distrust of experts and elites, and acute inequality are just some of the reasons we’re feeling more than thinking our way through important decisions. Like voting. Sociologist and political economist William Davies is the author of Nervous States, How Feeling Took Over the World. He takes us back to the decoupling of reason and emotion in the 17th century, and why we must fuse them back together in the 21st.

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