Tag: conservatives

  • Nation & World

    In this election, ‘costly signal deployment’

    As the 2020 presidential campaign rhetoric heats up, Harvard experimental psychologist Joshua D. Greene, who studies the science behind tribal instincts and moral judgments, looks at the strategy behind President Trump’s increasingly provocative, extreme language.

    8 minutes
    Harvard Professor of Psychology Joshua Greene.
  • Nation & World

    The conservative quandary

    During a panel discussion at Harvard Kennedy School, several leading conservative voices discuss why the movement’s political tenets still matter, even for a political party loyal to President Trump.

    5 minutes
    Kennedy School pane on conservatism
  • Nation & World

    For the rural right, the key’s what ‘feels true’

    Noted sociologist and author Arlie Hochschild discussed her research into the emotional life of “red state” conservatives and the “deep story” that informs their worldview.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Conservatives want results

    With the Republican Party controlling Washington, one might consider this the best of times for the conservative movement. Yet the consensus at a Kennedy School forum was often just the opposite.

    4 minutes