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

1 Faculty News October 20, 2016 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/opinion/how-to-repair-moral-capital.html) -- "'Moral communities are fragile things, hard to build and easy to destroy,' [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) writes in his book 'The Righteous Mind.' 'When we think about very large communities such as nations, the challenge is extraordinary and the threat of moral entropy is intense.'"

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