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I’ve been hearing from my readers that in some of the news stories on immigration from a recent post by Mark Hosenball I seemed too skeptical at times about our overall understanding of human nature, both by reference to my own thinking and to a more recent paper I published last spring with the economist Richard Burt. This got me thinking — what about human nature, to use the name Richard and myself gave to our study of the political psychology of political opinion? And what about the other questions, about how we understand and judge people by their political views?
To start, we have to ask a much broader question. In the past two decades, the political philosopher Edmund Wilson has made great strides in our understanding of the ways that political attitudes are structured — what he calls “political psychology” — by developing a very successful theory of how these attitudes form first and how they can be revised and altered, and then shaped and reshaped by changing circumstances, such as the changing political context.
Wilson was one of my graduate professors at Duke and still sits on the faculty of that university. During his career, he has had no trouble explaining what is going on in our social world (and indeed in the wider social sciences) and how it relates to all kinds of political thought and behavior. What he has found is that many of the patterns he has described for human nature are not limited to any one kind of political outlook. Rather, they’re pervasive patterns of political outlook, at least in different historical periods and across different kinds of political ideas. This is because people have come to different political conclusions from different kinds of political ideas and have come to different political views as a result. We see this in both our history and our political current — as well as in how the ideas of
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