Facts, notoriously, do not care about our feelings. They are not subjective, but objective. The “I” who experiences emotion is located in time and space, the owner of a single window on reality. Facts, on the other hand, are general and universal. The philosopher Thomas Nagel called his book on objectivity The View from Nowhere, and there is something eternally seductive about the thought of breaking out of the confines of the single window, seeing beyond its little square. “We may,” Nagel wrote, “think of reality as a set of concentric spheres, progressively revealed as we detach gradually from…