# Professor Jonathan Haidt shares his views on intellectual diversity on college campuses

1 Faculty News March 11, 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/2017/03/11/opinion/sunday/the-dangerous-safety-of-college.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=opinion) -- "'When something becomes a religion, we don’t choose the actions that are most likely to solve the problem,' said [Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), the author of the 2012 best seller 'The Righteous Mind' and a professor at New York University. 'We do the things that are the most ritually satisfying.'"

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