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Excerpted from the Tom Woods podcast #429 (June 22, 2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3ks4LxL1tg Jonathan Haidt discusses persuasion, moral foundations, libertarians, systemizing vs empathizing, and the need to have moral/epistemological humility. ========================= Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and Professor of Ethical …
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Helping defend a free nation against brutal Russian aggression is smart, but also simply right.
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/opinion/america-ukraine-russia-support.html?mwgrp=a-mbar&smid=em-share
We need to fight political despair everywhere we find it.
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We need to fight political despair everywhere we find it.
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We do not practice democracy alone, of course. We do it together, in community, as equals. “Democracy as a way of life,” wrote Dewey in a later essay, “is controlled by personal faith in personal day-by-day working together with others.”
Unfortunately, as the law professor Aziz Rana observes in a recent essay on political freedom in Boston Review, there are scarcely any spaces in the contemporary United States where ordinary Americans practice the habits of democracy and inhabit a more reciprocal, participatory and solidaristic vision of freedom. Decades after Ronald Reagan led a sweeping attack on the idea of the commons in American life, Rana writes, “there are vanishingly few sites in American life — at work or in politics — where these experiences actually exist.”
“We are simply not raised in cultural worlds in which collective agency is a meaningful reality,” Rana goes on to say.
A crisis of faith in the possibility of a better world.
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/opinion/democrats-shift-rightward.html?mwgrp=a-mbar&smid=em-share
48 Million Americans Live With Addiction. Here’s How to Get Them Help That Works.
We have the tools we need to create a world where addiction is just one aspect of people’s lives instead of a dark portal to despair and early death.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/opinion/addiction-policy-treatment-opioid.html?smid=em-share
Vying for its crucial support, neither Democrats nor Republicans are focusing on the essential question. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/democratic-republican-parties-working-class-economy/676145/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
Lawmakers Call for Raising Tariffs and Severing Economic Ties With China
A bipartisan report recommended stripping China of the low tariffs the United States granted it two decades ago, among other actions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/business/economy/us-china.html?hpgrp=ar-abar&smid=em-share
How Unconscious Bias in Health Care Puts Pregnant Black Women at Higher Risk
Many Black women report feeling ignored or dismissed by doctors. The consequences can be deadly for mothers and babies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/health/pregnant-black-women-bias.html?hpgrp=ar-abar&smid=em-share
Is Anti-Zionism Always Antisemitic? A Fraught Question for the Moment.
From the halls of Congress to America’s streets and universities, a once largely academic issue has roiled national discourse, inciting accusations of bigotry and countercharges of bullying.
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/us/politics/anti-zionism-antisemitism.html?smid=em-share