An old saw says it’s best to avoid politics and religion at social gatherings. Jonathan Haidt, author of the soon-to-be-released “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion,” now says politics is religion, a curious conflation on the surface.
In a recent interview with Bill Moyers, Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia, offers insight into his research on the reason people of good intention and intelligence arrive at polar-opposite perspectives.