Who is this KURT KLEINER guy? Very well-written piece on an interesting study.
And provocative. Did I mention provocative?
All of us, liberal or conservative, feel as though we've reached our political opinions by carefully weighing the evidence and exercising our best judgment. But it could be that all of that careful reasoning is just after-the-fact self-justification. What if personality forms our political outlook, with reason coming along behind, rationalizing after the fact?