# Professor Jonathan Haidt's work on viewpoint diversity is highlighted

1 Faculty News March 11, 2016 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/11/forget-what-the-right-says-academia-isnt-so-bad-for-conservative-professors/) -- "... liberal professors should temper their preference for like-minded colleagues by considering the virtues of viewpoint diversity. That case is being made more forcefully than ever at Heterodox Academy, a new initiative created by New York University psychologist [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt)."

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