Monday, June 02, 2014

Shall the twain ever meet?

...Conservatives and higher ed
The old conservative critique of social science needs to be revised considerably in light of some of the refinements in social science that have occurred over the last twenty or so years, and in fact you can point to models of consequential conservative social science, such as, for example, James Q. Wilson and Charles Murray. Another example is the fascinating work of the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Religion and Politics. Haidt is no conservative; to the contrary, he an Obama-supporting liberal. But he acknowledges that some of his empirical findings cast a more favorable light on conservatives.

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