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

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

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.

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn't change his judgment.