Jonathan Haidt

Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.

In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.

While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

There's an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he's a member of your ethnic group.

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.