Why Do We Always Think We're Right? (Rerun)

The Good Fight is on holiday, but we don't want to deprive you of our content. In fact, we thought this was a great opportunity to go back to some of the big bangers in our stable. Most of those were recorded in the last year, so we are re-releasing great conversations with Ali Hockchild, with Tyler Cowen, and with Moussa Al Gavi. But you know, I was recently speaking to somebody about friend of the podcast and of persuasion, Jonathan Haidt. Of course, he is being much discussed and debated right now because of his book, The Anxious Generation, and his arguments about the harms of social media.

But I keep telling everybody, while I really appreciate that book, his best book, his most interesting book is The Righteous Mind, his really deep introduction to political psychology. And I remembered that Jonathan and I recorded an episode about that book a good number of years ago. And by the way, that we'd never produced a transcript for it. So we are re-releasing John and my conversation from a good number of years ago about the righteous mind.

And we have also gone back to produce a written transcript of that. So if you want to listen to this whole conversation, Go to yashamunk.substeck.com. Become a paying subscriber, yasha munk.substeck.com. Well, it's my real, real pleasure to have Jonathan Haidt on the podcast today.

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