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Featured essays/talks by Jonathan Haidt

 

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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)

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Can a Divided America Heal? (November 2016)
AmericanInterest When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism (7/10/16)
WSJ_noTag_Black_001 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)

the-guardian-logo How Concept Creep is Closing Down Minds (4/10/16)

—————————————————————2015—————————————————————

The Coddling of the American Mind [Cover story] (September 2015)
washingtonpost The top 10 reasons American politics is so broken (1/7/15)

————————————————————–2014—————————————————————

zmlogo Three Stories About Capitalism, Zurich Minds (12/3/14)
HUffPo Wonderful vs. Wonder-Free Companies (3/5/14)
washingtonpost Can you teach businessmen to be ethical? (1/13/14)
Time mag Your personality makes your politics (1/9/14)
[Includes a brief on-line and indirect measure of political orientation]

—————————————————————-2013—————————————————————–

democracy

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—————————————————————–

washingtonpost

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.]
Time mag Romney, Obama, and the new culture war over fairness. (10/8/12)
NYT2 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]
NYT2 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]
NYT2 Look how far we’ve come apart (9/18/12)
NYT2 Forget the money, follow the sacredness (3/19/12)
Religion, Evolution, and the Ecstasy of Self-Transcendence (March 2012)
NYT2 How to get the rich to share the marbles (2/20/12)
saturdya America’s Painful Divide (September 2012)
[A condensed version of ch. 12. of The Righteous Mind]
reason 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)

Cnn-logo1 Why we love to lose ourselves in religion (4/1/12)

———————————————————–2008-2011————————————————————

NYT2

OpEd: Why we celebrate a killing (5/7/11)
WSJ_noTag_Black_001 What the Tea Partiers really want (10/16/10)
The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives (March 2008)

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