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His book is jam-packed with examples of wrongheadedness, some amusing, some hair-raising, and it serves as a useful cautionary tale as America once again faces off with secretive and suspicious great-power rivals.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2022

If a full amnesty for past wrongs or current wrongheadedness isn’t possible, I strive to separate the offender from the offense.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

Among the most influential was 20th-century British philosopher Gilbert Ryle, who put to rest the wrongheadedness of Cartesian mind-body dualism by metaphorically debunking this notion as the “ghost in the machine.”

From Scientific American • Oct. 3, 2021

"To me, the Bendell paper is a perfect storm of misguidedness and wrongheadedness," Mann says.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2020

Martin Decoud, the dilettante in life, imagined himself to derive an artistic pleasure from watching the picturesque extreme of wrongheadedness into which an honest, almost sacred, conviction may drive a man.

From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph