# Professor Jonathan Haidt's work on the conflict between globalism and nationalism is referenced

1 Faculty News January 28, 2017 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/opinion/one-country-two-tribes.html) -- "[Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), a social psychologist at New York University, calls it the clash between globalists and nationalists. The globalists, who tend to be urban and college educated, want a world like the one described in John Lennon’s song 'Imagine' — no religion, walls or borders dividing people. The nationalists see that as a vision of hell. They want to defend their culture and emphasize the bonds of nationhood — flag, Constitution, patriotism. They also want to limit immigration, an instinct that globalists are often quick to condemn as racist."

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