Universities need to clarify what they see as their primary role: rational discourse or secular theology.

As in virtually every other setting, it stirs up quite a debate, but you would assume it fundamental to rational discourse.

They are in demand by host nations and sponsors precisely because they have the ability to connect with the masses in a way that bypasses rational discourse.

He was paradoxically anti-modernist in his desire to do away with the rational discourse of modernism, to ditch the dictionary and create a new language free of convention or association.

The teahouse was a place where political allegiances and social rank were said to have been temporarily suspended in favor of honest and rational discourse.