Within a few weeks, the sessions from TEDX MidAtlantic will be up on the internet, so you can see Haidt's presentation for yourself. I really wanted to talk to him, and saw him at the reception talking to somebody, but I didn't use the fine art of interruption and then when I looked for him later o...

The talk tried to bridge the right/left divide by proposing that each side can recognize, if it will lay down its ideological arms, the legitimacy of four threats to the nation that require action in order to avoid disaster or profound changes to our way of life. The threats are climate change, inc...

DWill wrote: I sometimes think it's completely irrelevant whether we continue to use liberal and conservative. We could use Hekyl and Jekyl and do about as well, because the only important thing is to label the opposing camps. Around the time of the Civil War, 'Republican' would make citizens think...

Thanks for these interesting musings David and DWill. Hope you both are still up for more discussion about: DWill wrote: But here's the thing, Robert: Ayn Rand is no conservative. Radical individualism of this kind is precisely what conservatives of the classical type fear will destroy social capita...