Sacrificial Politics and Sacred Victims

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues in The Righteous Mind that people of the Left suffer from a psychological deficiency, an anemia in a key dimension of moral sensibility. They don’t experience the same concerns for “sanctity” that people across cultures do, he claims. Let’s call it, “Sanctity Deficiency Disorder.” Sanctity has to do with the sacred, so the … Continue reading Sacrificial Politics and Sacred Victims