Confused by American politics? All hail the sacred cow!
It’s an election season in the U.S. – and time to haul out the ideological arguments on…well, just about everything. Why do liberals and conservatives disagree so fundamentally on so many issues? Forget about “following the money,” – there’s more at stake here. In the piece in The New Yorker Jonathan Haidt explains why groups coalesce around what they believe to be sacred – and shares how we might be better of using basic sociology to get things done, both in Washington, and in our own lives.