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My guest today is Jonathan Hight.

Jonathan is one of the world's leading thinkers on the political views of individuals

and where those views come from. Most recently he's been

involved in a crusade to make the campus environment more intellectually

diverse. He's one of the world's leading psychologists, has a strong background in cultural anthropology and economics, and basically is known to us all.

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So just to start off with the question

so Jonathan you think of people's political views as stemming

from these social intuitions, which are fairly strongly hardwired into them. If I look at politics

this year, what I see is we had almost all the pundits thinking about

Republican values, the Republican past, and seeing Scott Walker, Marco Rubio,

Jeb Bush, and thinking some mix of those people would be the leaders because they matched

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