#248 — Order & Freedom

Sam Harris speaks with Michele Gelfand about the difference
between tight and loose cultures. They discuss the primacy of
cultural norms in governing human behavior, the trade-offs
between order and freedom, conservatism vs liberalism,
sensitivity to threat, scarcity, the COVID pandemic, the Jeffrey
Toobin affair, political polarization, the problem of extreme
stereotypes, and other topics.


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