You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.