# Insights on the causes of today's polarized political climate from Professor Jonathan Haidt's new book, "The Coddling of the American Mind," are spotlighted

1 Faculty News September 21, 2018 ![New York Magazine logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_035440.gif?itok=tfYuio90)>

Excerpt from [New York Magazine](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/andrew-sullivan-america-land-of-brutal-binaries.html) -- "Haidt and Lukianoff note how humans are constructed genetically for this kind of tribal warfare, to divide the world instinctively into in-groups and out-groups almost from infancy. For homo sapiens, it is natural to see the world, as Rabbi Jonathan Sacks put it, as radically 'divided into the unimpeachably good and the irredeemably bad.'”

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