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Challenging Conventional Wisdom about Conservatism and Liberalism. . . . "it ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. . . . . . . . . . . . It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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- Index of Posts
- Nine Challenges to Moral Foundations Theory
- The Cognitive Theory of Politics
- Thesis Part One – Introduction: What Divides Us, and How to Fix it
- Venn Diagram of Liberal and Conservative Traits and Moral Foundations
- Thesis Part Two – How Moral Foundations Affect Partisan Divisiveness (Updated 3/28/15)
- Thesis Part Three – Cognitive Style is a Moral Foundation
- Thesis Part Four – Recommendations (Update 3/28/15)
- Falsehoods and Truths
- Functions of Moral Foundations
- Taste Buds, Yin/Yang and Other Metaphors
- Favorite Passages
- al-Gharbi: Progressives and Conservatives are Different Types of People
- Arnade: Dignity
- Braestrup: Tree and Fruit
- Burke: The Nature of Man is Intricate. Restraints Are Rights
- Scott Adams: How Kanye showed the way to The Golden Age
- Transcripts of Heterodox Academy’s Open Mind Conference, June 15, 2018
- Session Seven: OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CLASSROOM: WHAT PROFESSORS CAN DO TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
- Session One: A VIEW FROM THE ACADEMY: HOW A LACK OF VIEWPOINT DIVERSITY HARMS HIGHER EDUCATION
- Session Three: BIG QUESTIONS AND HETERODOX ANSWERS
- Session Five: A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT ZIMMER
- Session Six: OPPORTUNITIES ON CAMPUS: THE POWER OF LEADERS AND ADMINISTRATORS
- Session Eight: OPPORTUNITIES BEYOND CAMPUS: POLITICS, POLICY, AND PHILANTHROPY
- Session Nine: OPPORTUNITIES IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT: EDUCATING TOMORROW’S COLLEGE STUDENTS
- Session Ten: CLOSING DISCUSSION: TOWARDS A MORE HETERODOX ACADEMY
- Coulter: Civil Rights Chickenhawks
- D’Souza
- D’Souza: The Megaphones of Our Culture
- D’Souza: The Big Switch, Part 1
- D’Souza: The Big Switch, Part 2
- D’Souza: Party of Slavery
- D’Souza: Two Civil Rights Revolutions
- D’Souza: Where Do Civil Rights Come From?
- D’Souza: The Original Civil Rights Revolution
- D’Souza: The Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, Segregation, and Separate but Equal
- D’Souza: The Segregation Solution
- D’Souza: Blaming the South
- D’Souza: Women’s Suffrage
- D’Souza: Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and LBJ
- D’Souza: The Second Civil Rights Revolution
- D’Souza: In Sum
- Grant: The Narcissism of Small Differences
- Haidt
- Haidt and Keller: The Closing of the Modern Mind
- Haidt: Crossing the Rubicon
- Haidt: The Unconstrained Vision Has the Worst Track Record in the History of Ideas
- Haidt: Two Incompatible Sacred Values in American Universities
- Haidt: Humans are 90 Percent Chimp and 10 Percent Bee
- Haidt: Teaching Students to Slur Rather Than Argue
- Haidt: The Divided Self (The Rider and the Elephant)
- Haidt: The Like-O-Meter
- Haidt: The Promethean Script
- Haidt: The Mind is a Story Processor, Not a Logic Processor
- Haidt: The Grand Narratives
- Haidt: Conservatives Understand Liberals Better Than Liberals Understand Conservatives
- Haidt: Conservatives Understand Human Nature Better Than Liberals
- Haidt: The Moral Matrix
- Haidt: Flatland/Spaceland
- Haidt: A Note On Innateness
- Haidt: The Hive Switch
- Haidt: Three Ethics Are More Descriptive Than One
- Haidt: Morality Defined
- Haidt: The Rationalist Delusion
- Haidt: The Rationalist Delusion – Part 2
- Haidt: The Rubicon of Shared Intent
- Haidt: WEIRD Morality and Style of Thought
- Haidt: The Conservative Advantage
- Haidt: The Left’s Blind Spot: Moral Capital
- Haidt: Naïve Realism
- Haidt: Transcript – When Compassion Leads to Sacrilege
- Hannan: The Cousins’ Wars
- Herman: Plato Versus the Founders
- Oakeshott: Two Types of Knowledge
- Muller: What is Conservative Social and Political Thought?
- Murray: The Difference Between Nice and Good
- Rauch: The Rise of Liberal Science
- Rauch: Various quotes from “Kindly Inquisitors”
- Shermer: Is Social Science Politically Biased?
- Sowell: Constrained and Unconstrained Visions – Introduction
- Sowell: The Left-Right Dichotomy
- Tierney: The Real War on Science
- Wallace: How to Think
- The Metaphor of the Moral Rainbow
- Links to Articles
- Quotes I Like
- Videos/Podcasts
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I Support Viewpoint Diversity
A politically diverse group of social scientists, natural scientists, humanists, and other scholars who want to improve our academic disciplines and universities. We share a concern about a growing problem: the loss or lack of “viewpoint diversity.” When nearly everyone in a field shares the same political orientation, certain ideas become orthodoxy, dissent is discouraged, and errors can go unchallenged.
Important Posts
- Nine Challenges to Moral Foundations Theory
- The Cognitive Theory of Politics
- Falsehoods and Truths
- Conservatism is not Resistance to Change, it is Respect for Experience
- Religion, Morality, and Ideology: Different Names for the Same Underlying Element of Human Nature
- Religion, Morality, and Ideology: Like Things That Should Be Judged Alike.
- Liberty, Equality, Justice, and Fairness Have Different Meanings in Different Moral Matrices
- Toward a More Accurate Political Spectrum
- How to Better Articulate Conservatism (And Liberalism Too)
- Openness To New Ideas Is Not A Moral Foundation
- Do Liberals Really "Care" More?
- The Mike Romano Story
- Jonathan Haidt's Metaphors Sacrifice Completeness and Accuracy in Favor of Parsimony and Ideology, Part I: Yin/Yang
- Jonathan Haidt’s Metaphors Sacrifice Completeness and Accuracy in Favor of Parsimony and Ideology, Part II: Taste Buds
- What Moral Foundations Really Are and How They Help Us to Diagnose and Treat The Political Divide
- Moral Foundations Theory Explains Much More Than Just The Political Divide
Recommended Reading
- A Methodology Critique in Defense of Those Wascally Wepublicans
- Are Liberals More Intelligent than Conservatives? Another Broken Study Says It Is So
- Compromising with Moral Adolescence: A Losing Strategy
- More Than Dependency
- Our One-Eyed Friends
- Rationalism In Politics, Parts 1-3 of 5
- Rationalism In Politics, Parts 4-5 of 5
- Sufficient Reason: Dear Liberal…Here's Why I'm So Hostile
- The Argumentative Theory
- The Bright Future of Post-Partisan Social Psychology
- The Heretic
- The Political Spectrum (Part I): The Totalitarian Left from Communism to Social Democracy
- The Political Spectrum (Part II) — The Center: A Democracy or a Constitutional Republic?
- The Political Spectrum (Part III) – The Extreme Right: Anarchism
- The Quest for Cosmic Justice, by Thomas Sowell
- The Village Square
- WaPo: Let’s hold free speech guilty for the acts of a lunatic, shall we?
- You Can't Use Results To Determine Fairness and Justice
Recommended Videos
- "When Compassion Leads to Sacrilege," a talk by Jonathan Haidt
- Haidt concludes four part Righteous Mind symposium
- Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Newly Expanded Edition
- The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives
- The Rationalist Delusion
- Two Incompatible Sacred Values in American Universities, Jon Haidt, Hayek Lecture Series, Duke University
An Interpretation of Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory
This sidebar lists a series of posts which together make up an essay relating Moral Foundations Theory to today's politics, and even a little history, as viewed through The Independent Whig's six-foundation moral lens.
- Introduction
- Overview: MFT Explains Much More Than Just The Political Divide
- Haidt’s Evenhandedness Dilutes the Message
- The Moral Mind
- The Moral Mind In Action
- The Complex Nature of Human Society
- Liberal and Conservative Moral Visions
- The Bees and the Hive: Liberal and Conservative Perceptions of Human Nature
- Liberty, Equality, Justice, and Fairness Mean Different Things in Different Moral Matrices
- Protecting the Weak
- Do Liberals Really “Care” More?
- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: Conservatism is the Seedbed of Liberalism
- The Root Cause of the Political Divide
- Other Brief Thoughts: Haidt’s Yin/Yang, Moral Thinking, and Advice to Democrats
- Conclusion
- Recommendations
- Nutshells
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