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Politics, Economics, and Sacredness

When I was contemplating the political mind, I imagined that you could devise a test that had nothing to do with politics and economics, and on the basis of the answers have a fairly good idea what the politics of the test-taker were. Turns out, of course, that many others …

Conservatives in the Third Dimension

After spending a couple of weeks with liberal George Lakoff and Corey Robin’s sometimes objective but definitively contrarian takes on the conservative mind, it was refreshing to get a more positive perspective, even one from yet another liberal, Jonathan Haidt, in The Happiness Hypothesis. “A society without liberals,” he writes, “would …