The Rider & the Elephant - Jonathan Haidt on Persuasion and Moral Humility

Excerpted from the Tom Woods podcast #429 (June 22, 2015):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3ks4LxL1tg

Jonathan Haidt discusses persuasion, moral foundations, libertarians, systemizing vs empathizing, and the need to have moral/epistemological humility.

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Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. His academic specialization is the psychology of morality and the moral emotions. He is author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, and The Happiness Hypothesis.

He co-authored (with Greg Lukianoff of FIRE) an influential article in the September 2015 issue of The Atlantic, entitled "The Coddling of the American Mind": http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

He also runs Heterodox Academy which promotes viewpoint diversity at universities. http://heterodoxacademy.org

Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges:
http://heterodoxacademy.org/resources/guide-to-colleges/