Written during a year marred by a relentlessly crumbling world, this short collection of essays offers a pensive response to the turbulence. Reflections on current affairs are placed alongside musings on the ever-evolving, rugged terrain of life. Issues of hidden paradoxes, sources of wonderment, and the various facades of reality are dragged to the witness stand. West of Reason is a harbor for the dialectic, critiques and considerations on the status quo, and a collision with ideas that compel us all to engage with the world.