# Professor Jonathan Haidt's work on the moral foundations of politics is spotlighted

1 Faculty News March 31, 2020 ![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/2020/03/31/opinion/covid-conservatism.html) -- "But there have been more sophisticated and sympathetic efforts, too, like the influential work of New York University’s [Jonathan Haidt](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) on the 'moral foundations' of politics: Haidt argues that conservatives actually have more diverse moral intuitions than liberals, encompassing categories like purity and loyalty as well as care and fairness, and that the right-wing mind therefore sometimes understands the left-wing mind better than vice versa."

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