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  • Why Conservatives Should Care More about Cities

    Why Conservatives Should Care More about Cities0

    It’s a time-honoured tradition in America, since the days of Jefferson and even before, to decry the evils of city life. One sees a great deal of this tradition in modern conservative discourse. Small-town America is the ‘real America’, the unpretentious, authentic, hardworking America with healthy values, and the big cities are full of crime

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  • Why Conservatives Can’t Understand Liberals (and Vice Versa)

    Why Conservatives Can’t Understand Liberals (and Vice Versa)0

    It’s probably important to preface any conversation on morality by noting that humans often struggle—mightily—to agree on what morality is. While it’s a thorny topic to define and explain, it would of course be foolish to avoid the pursuit of moral truths for this reason.  Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia

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  • Why Conservatives Are Losing – Part 2

    Why Conservatives Are Losing – Part 20

    In 1981, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre published his magisterial After Virtue, in which he advocated that the West return to a more coherent understanding of morality. In his 2007 prologue to the third edition, MacIntyre acknowledged one important shortcoming of his project: “I had now learned from Aquinas that my attempt to provide an account of

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  • Why Conservatives and Liberals Respond to COVID-19 Differently

    Why Conservatives and Liberals Respond to COVID-19 Differently0

    In a 2008 TED Talk, psychologist Jonathan Haidt said the worst idea in psychology is the notion that humans are born as a “blank slate.” Like the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, Haidt was rejecting the notion that the human mind is a blank slate at birth, an idea that can be traced to thinkers from

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  • Why Companies Pitch in Without Being Ordered To

    Why Companies Pitch in Without Being Ordered To0

    Severe shortages of critical medical supplies have prompted governments to compel private companies to fill the gap. In the U.S., President Donald Trump invoked rarely used powers to force General Motors to make ventilators, while the leaders of France, the U.K. and Japan have put pressure on companies to make more medical supplies. But, judging

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  • Why Colleges Should Drop Racial Preferences

    Why Colleges Should Drop Racial Preferences0

    The Gallup Organization and Inside Higher Ed co-hosted a conference in Washington on September 15. They called it “Not Out of the Woods: Colleges, Diversity and Affirmative Action after a Year of Protest and Court Battles.” Most of those in attendance were university officials of one kind or another. I was the sole participant who

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