Apologies for the somewhat incoherent post, my lunch break is about to end. Here I thought this was going to talk about how almost all of social psychology, ec

Apologies for the somewhat incoherent post, my lunch break is about to end. Here I thought this was going to talk about how almost all of social psychology, economics, and other disciplines that influence social policies almost never question capitalism. The difference between liberals (lowercase 'l') and conservatives is very little when it comes to the basic premises of how societies should be structured. Very disappointing. The only departure the post makes from this dichotomy is a mention of libertarians and moderates. Something tells me they mean 'right libertarians' and not libertarian socialists. Heterodox Academy is a striking name for an institution, so I looked up what it's supposed to be about and, of course, I found the typical boring premises that infest right wing institutions[1]: Their ideologies haven't been rejected because their policies were implemented in real life and produced bad outcomes; clearly it's because there is a systematic bias against them. Talk about a persecution complex! As if neoliberalism infesting governments and supranational governing bodies isn't enough, it also needs to recapture academia and regain intellectual primacy! The last thing social psychology needs is an infusion of ideas from the end of the spectrum that embraces Murray Rothbard. Last observation before I go: There is a tendency for reactionary movements (and yes! right libertarianism is a reactionary ideology: it dreams of a never borne out vision of laissez-faire capitalism the world abandoned generations ago) to adopt the language and lexicon of those opposed to them. In this case, the adoption of the language of diversity is being used while very likely the people who want the social sciences to be more right wing spit vitriol at the mention of diversity in the broader context of society. I don't think it's sincere, and if it is, it's laughable. > [Libertarians are the political group with the highest IQ, yet they are underrepresented in the social sciences other than economics] /snicker [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/09/15/heterodox-academy/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...