Jonathan Haidt

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.