Sublime

community accountability alongside individual freedom.

Haidt is soft-spoken but not meek. His words are measured, and when he listens he is one of the few people I’ve ever met who actually stops to consider everything that he is being told.

As hardly needs to be pointed out, those of us alive today inhabit a world increasingly dominated by “psychology.” Psychology, indeed, is the reigning ideology of the modern era

Monastic Philosophy

Accordingly, liberalism was correct in counseling people to follow their hearts rather than the dictates of some priest or party apparatchik. However, soon computer algorithms might be able to give you better counsel than human feelings. As the Spanish Inquisition and the KGB give way to Google and Baidu, “free will” likely will be exposed as a myt

Building the Mind Monopoly

Psychology has psychologized the public and, like the children of Hamlin town who followed the Pied Piper, immature minds have followed false teachings until they have disappeared into the unknown.

According to this 19th-century interpretation, human history is the result of the actions of great individuals who—by dint of their intelligence, courage and creativity—altered the world around them.

It is a cliché to note that the personal is the political, but in an era when scientists, corporations, and governments are learning to hack the human brain, this truism is more sinister than ever.