Essays

Featured essays/talks by Jonathan Haidt

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—————————————————————2017—————————————————————
City Journal	The Age of Outrage: What the current political climate is doing to our country and our universities (German translation is here)
	The Fragile Generation (with Lenore Skenazy)
	Why It’s a Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence
	It’s disadvantaged groups that suffer most when free speech is curtailed on campus. (With Musa Al-Gharbi, 7/8/17)
Chronicle of Higher Education	Intimidation is the new normal on campus (4/26/17)
—————————————————————2016—————————————————————
	Can a Divided America Heal? (November 2016)
	When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism (7/10/16)
	Hard Truths About Race on Campus [Cover Story in Saturday Review] (5/6/16) How to Get Beyond our Tribal Politics [Cover Story in Saturday Review] (11/5/16)
	How Concept Creep is Closing Down Minds (4/10/16)
—————————————————————2015—————————————————————
	The Coddling of the American Mind [Cover story] (September 2015)
	The top 10 reasons American politics is so broken (1/7/15)
————————————————————–2014—————————————————————
	Three Stories About Capitalism, Zurich Minds (12/3/14)
	Wonderful vs. Wonder-Free Companies (3/5/14)
	Can you teach businessmen to be ethical? (1/13/14)
	Your personality makes your politics (1/9/14) [Includes a brief on-line and indirect measure of political orientation]
—————————————————————-2013—————————————————————–
	Of Freedom and Fairness (Spring 2013) [Gives my analysis of the new front line in the American culture war]
	How Common Threats Can Make Common (political) Ground (January 2013)
—————————————————————-2012—————————————————————–
	Moral values and the fiscal cliff (11/16/12) [With Hal Movius. Offers advice on how to negotiate when sacred values make compromise much more difficult.]
	Romney, Obama, and the new culture war over fairness. (10/8/12)
	OpEd: We need a little fear (11/7/12) [Presents the “asteroids” metaphor, and the claim that each side sees some of the threats facing America but is blind to others]
	Reasons matter (when intuitions don’t object) (10/7/12) [A response to two essays from philosophers — Michael Lynch and Gary Gutting –critiquing my claims about reason and philosophy]
	Look how far we’ve come apart (9/18/12)
	Forget the money, follow the sacredness (3/19/12)
	Religion, Evolution, and the Ecstasy of Self-Transcendence (March 2012)
	How to get the rich to share the marbles (2/20/12)
	America’s Painful Divide (September 2012) [A condensed version of ch. 12. of The Righteous Mind]
	Born this way? Nature, nurture, narratives, and the making of our political personalities [Cover story] (May 2012) The moral foundations of Occupy Wall Street (10/20/11)
	Why we love to lose ourselves in religion (4/1/12)
———————————————————–2008-2011————————————————————
	OpEd: Why we celebrate a killing (5/7/11)
	What the Tea Partiers really want (10/16/10)
	The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives (March 2008)