# Professor Jonathan Haidt's book, "The Righteous Mind," is featured

1 Faculty News July 11, 2017 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](https://www.marketplace.org/2017/07/11/economy/make-me-smart-kai-and-molly/23-righteous-mind) -- "If you want to be persuasive to the other side, which is fundamentally what politics used to be about in this country, and what politics in a functioning democracy is ... the subtext of political discourse in a democracy is being able to persuade the other side to your point of view. And the way to do that, [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) says, is to be empathetic. Understand where they're coming from. Devote time, energy, and attention to that and then make your reasoned argument."

[Listen here](https://www.marketplace.org/2017/07/11/economy/make-me-smart-kai-and-molly/23-righteous-mind)