Jonathan Haidt

Global Capitalism: Anti-Democratic Politics and Existential Crisis

Though it is not often examined in these terms, the popular disaffection of Americans with government in general and the rise of anti-democratic politics around the world are seemingly predictable reactions to the contemporary global crises in the international capitalist economy. Persistent poverty, pandemics, military conflict, economic displacement, climate catastrophes, migration, widespread corruption and social […]

Ricardo Duchesne - Conservative Gatekeepers Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker & Jonathan Haidt - Hour 1

Ricardo Duchesne, Professor at The University of New Brunswick, Canada, is the author of The Uniqueness of Western Civilization (2011), Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age, and Canada In Decay: Mass Immigration, Diversity, and the Ethnocide of Euro-Canadians. He is one of the co-editors and principal writer of the blog Council of European Canadians. He is the only academic in Canada, and possibly the Western world, who rejects the diversification of Western nations in favour of European Ethnic Identity.
A video version of this interview is available here.

The Road to Hell Was Paved with College Safe Spaces

That isn’t what this resistance is now doing. What they’re doing instead is trying to take maybe the only faction worse than Donald Trump, which is the deep state, like the CIA with its history of atrocities, and say they ought to almost engage in like a soft coup where they take the elected President and prevent him from enacting his policy. And I think it is extremely dangerous to do that.
– From Glenn Greenwald’s recent interview with Democracy Now