George Lakoff & John Jost on “The Science of Conservatism”

What does it mean to be a Conservative?  Are the NeoCons a natural offshoot of Conservatism, or something far more radical?  What is going on inside the Conservative mind which leads to those policies liberals find so appalling?  And how can we understand Conservatism – as an alternative political mindset, or a product of an underdeveloped psychology?

To speak to these questions and more, ETFF presents a special interview with cognitive scientist George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, and New York University Professor of Psychology John Jost – author of the revealing psychology paper, “Political conservatism as motivated social cognition.”