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Professor Jonathan Haidt offers his perspective on how the balance between tribalism and openness might play out in the political arena

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Jonathan Haidt, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, offered a similarly nuanced examination of how the balance between tribalism and openness might play out. Tribalism, he wrote by email, 'is not a mindless and eternal “us versus them” mentality. It is a set of psychological adaptations that make people respond to threats and intergroup competition with an urge to band together, enforce loyalty to the team, and guard boundaries or territory.'"

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