The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Religion and Politics

Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “height”) is a social psychologist at the NYU-Stern School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, and spent most of his career (1995-2011) at the University of Virginia. Haidt’s research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultures–including the cultures of American progressive, conservatives, and libertarians. Haidt is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis, and of The New York Times bestseller The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. Haidt’s most recent book, co-written with Greg Lukianoff, is The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. At NYU-Stern, he is applying his research on moral psychology to business ethics, asking how companies can structure and run themselves in ways that will be resistant to ethical failures (see EthicalSystems.org).

Mentioned in this program:

• CivilPolitics.org
• YourMorals.org
• Heterodox Academy
• The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
• The Coddling of the American Mind, cover story by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic
• The Big Sort by Bill Bishop
• My Wife and My Mother-in-Law, illustration by William Ely Hill
• Alan Abramowitz, American political scientist and author
• It’s Even Worse Than It Looks by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
• The Parties Versus the People by Mickey Edwards
• Also – check out the list of Good Reads (and watches) below.

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