Yet another cool collection of links from Bookforum's
Omnivore - this one looks at the nearly gang-like, tribal warfare between the political factions in this country..
- What the Right gets right: What insights, principles, and analyses does this movement have to offer that liberals and Democrats might want to take into account? (and more: What does the Left get right?)
- Liberty, Equality, Hostility: The inability of conservatives and liberals to get along may be traced back to the French Revolution.
- Jonathan Haidt decodes the tribal psychology of politics:
"Liberals need to be shaken [and they] misunderstand conservatives far
more than the other way around".
- Conservatives are from Mars, liberals
are from Venus: Thomas Edsall on how research in political psychology
explains the fierce clashes between Republican and Democrats in our
polarized system.
- Conservatism is linked to low intelligence; but the real idiots are the progressives letting it win.
- The biology of politics: Liberals roll with the good, conservatives confront the bad.
- Nature, nurture and liberal values: Biology determines our behaviour
more than it suits many to acknowledge, but people — and politics and
morality — cannot be described just by neural impulses.
- Do people
become more conservative as they age?
