![]() The dirty tricks of Republican operatives such as Lee Atwater and Karl Rove are too numerous to catalogue. The Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry in 2004, financed by Republican donors, was based on lies, while the CBS 60 Minutes report alleging Bush’s evasion of National Guard duty was substantially true, despite a firestorm of successful Republican denial. A Republican Supreme Court awarded the presidency to George W. ![]() Embassy in Tehran until Jimmy Carter had left office. The Reagan campaign allegedly attempted to delay the release of 52 American hostages held at the U.S. ![]() The Nixon campaign attempted to forestall a peace agreement in Vietnam in October 1968 that, had it succeeded, might have won Hubert Humphrey the election. Though no fan of Haidt, I must say Scialabba unwittingly validates Haidt's thesis more than his silly mind can ever fathom.Įarly in the review, Scialabba summarizes Haidt's ideas thus: "Experiments repeatedly show-to oversimplify only a little-that we all believe what we want, regardless of reasons." In other words, as Haidt succinctly puts it: "Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."Īs if to go out of his way to prove this thesis, the liberal Democrat Scialabba writes, rather gratuitously, later in the review: "Republicans cheat a lot. If you want a good laugh, get a load of George Scialabba's review of Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" in the Boston Review. ![]()
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