Policy in an Era of Unreason: Remarks Upon Receiving the Veblen-Commons Award

[...]since 1980, in the United States, we have been undoing - from a public policy perspective - what progress was made toward a decent society in earlier decades, and removing reason as a criterion for both proposing and adopting public policy proposals. At this time in the United States, a significant number of citizens reject indisputable consensuses among scientists on matters of global warming and evolution by natural selection.