Why can't our opponents be reasonable? In his new book, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of morality in our rapid and automatic moral intuitions.

This Bradley Lecture is based on Brooks’s new book, “The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise” (Basic Books, May 2012).

Nick Schulz reviews Animal Spirits.

Did the epistolary novel inspire the idea of human rights?

The liberal critics of Republicans want the GOP to behave itself and go back to the good old days best described by Eugene McCarthy’s quip that the chief purpose of moderate Republicans is to shoot the wounded after the battle is over. No thanks.

How do we reconcile the spiritual and moral side of life with theories of evolutionary psychology?

At this AEI event, experts from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy discussed how pleasure motivates human behavior.