This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, August 28, 2015. I'm Caleb Brown.

Willpower is a powerful resource and recent research indicates is relatively finite, but something we can cultivate over time with some effort.

New York Times columnist John Tierney at Cato University discuss the value of willpower in an age of endless decision-making.

As a libertarian, as a fellow libertarian, one of my favorite bits of social science

involves the link between intelligence and political ideology.

Various studies showed that conservatives tend to be rigid and closed-minded.

And these findings are definitely true

because they were done by scientists in academia

who are famous, who are famously unbiased. open to a wide spectrum of ideas politically.

I mean I know some of you are in school now and are aware that there are some

faculty on campus who are Democrats, but there are also many

faculty members who vote with the Green Party too.

So, now when these researchers looked at IQ, they reported with barely disguised glee that socially conservative Republicans have lower IQs than liberal Democrats.

But then they were stunned to discover

that the average IQ of Republicans

is higher than the average IQ of Democrats.

And how could this be?

Well, because the libertarians in the Republican Party

were so much smarter than the Democrats and everyone else.

So...

So I congratulate you all on your genius.

And tonight I want to talk about another... So I congratulate you all on your genius.

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