The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. Baruch Spinoza, Ethics In his new book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “Can we all get along?” That appeal was made famous on May 1, 1992, by Rodney King, a black man who had been beaten nearly to death by ...

Amid America's tense culture wars, Haidt (The Happiness Hypothesis), a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, has produced this thought-provoking investigation into the innate morality of ...

The Righteous Mind and our intuitive, subtle, differentiated moral landscape Scientific understanding of moral psychology has undergone some significant changes over the past 50 years. In the 1960s ...

THE RIGHTEOUS MIND: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt. Pantheon Books, 419 pp., $28.95. Back in 1989, controversy erupted over a photograph by Andres Serrano ...

Ever wonder what makes up your moral compass? That’s the premise behind the first selection of the Make Me Smart Book Club. We read “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and ...