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Index
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Page numbers beginning with 173 refer to endnotes.
abortion, 79
action, 53
beliefs and, 5, 8
choice of, 7
cognitive, 16
commitment to, 55
communicative, 39–40
convictions and, 6, 53, 55
drastic, 10
expressive, 40
intellectual arrogance in, 39
lack of, 14
thought and, 5
ACT UP, 153
affection, 42
Agassiz, Louis, 70
agreement, 156, 164, 165, 167
AIDS, 153
Alcoff, Linda, 180
algorithms, 29
Alt-Right, 120, 131, 132
American dream, 90
anger, 91, 122, 131, 133, 135, 138
anti-Semitism, 31, 94, 108
anxiety, 51, 78, 90, 92, 100, 129
apocalypse, 10
apologies, 44, 82
Arendt, Hannah, 4, 75–76, 78–79, 92, 93, 98–99, 101, 155
Aristophanes, 142
Aristotle, 81, 153
arrogance, 36, 53, 74, 79, 86, 138, 141
attractiveness of, 77–78
beliefs and, 2–3, 12
combating of, 8, 151, 159
confidence vs., 78
conviction giving rise to, 6
dogmatic, 3
intellectual, 2–3, 6, 12, 13, 14, 20–26, 39, 95, 97, 98, 141–42, 153, 158, 160, 165, 175
liberal, 121, 123, 193–94
moral, 2
political, 2–3, 5
seeds of, 14, 21
as social failing, 6, 25–26
tendency toward, 11, 12, 36
tribal, 6, 25–26, 36, 92, 93, 95–96, 97, 152, 162, 163, 170
warnings about, 12, 100, 142
about worldview, 6, 10, 12, 21–23, 52, 98, 149
art, 145
Aryan culture, 77
Asia, 142
aspiration, 6, 55, 56–57, 110
assumptions, 143
atheism, 25
Athens, 142, 153
attitudes, 55, 58, 73, 137
adoption of, 13
change of, 5, 63–64, 126
definition of, 5
disavowal of, 5
emotional, 43, 46
inquiring, 149
open-minded vs. closed-minded, 34, 51, 62, 100, 131, 150, 151
polarized, 12
post-truth, 163–64
reinforcement of, 77
relationships and, 5
sharing of, 7, 46
skeptical, 9
social, 18–26
transitory, 26
toward truth and evidence, 37
unforgiving, 31–32
validation of, 82
Austria, 4
authoritarianism, 75–79, 92, 99, 130
autism, 3
Bar-On, Dorit, 176
basketball, 42, 46
Battaly, Heather, 176, 179
beliefs, 141, 143
action and, 5, 8
arrogance about, 2–3, 12
biased, 17–18, 30
changing of, 5
confidence about, 20
in conspiracy theories, 39
convictions and, 61, 68–74, 93
dogmatic, 2, 4–5
entrenched, 164
false, 7, 33
forcible promotion of, 136
forming of, 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 16–18, 46, 144
foundational, 148
groundlessness of, 53
moral, 144
political, 144
protest and, 5
reinforcement of, 29–30
religious, 10, 25, 60
tribal, 3, 4, 7
truth of, 165, 168
uncertainty over, 10, 34
value of, 5
Bell, Macalester, 181
Bennett, Bill, 117–18
bias, 30, 142
confirmation of, 34
correcting for, 41, 158
implicit, 17–18, 160
information tailored to, 32
Birmingham, Ala., 153
Black, Derek, 147–48
Black Lives Matter, 112
Bloom, Alan, 117–18
Bolsheviks, 31
Bordeaux, 11
Boyer, Mark, 154
Boy Scouts of America, 81
brain function, 74
Brazil, 4
Breitbart, 132
Brooks, Arthur, 93
Brooks, David, 93, 125
bullying, 138
Burke, Edmund, 124
Butler, Judith, 125
Cambridge Analytica, 32
Camus, Albert, 3
cell phones, 28
censorship, 100
certainty:
desire for, 12
moral, 2
change:
of attitudes, 5, 63–64, 126
of beliefs, 5
cultural and demographic, 12
fear of, 7
resistance to, 53
social, 14
charisma, 35
Charisma Media, 80
Charlottesville, Va., 94, 131, 132, 133
Checklist Manifesto, The (Gawande), 158
checklists, 158–60
children, 25, 55, 58, 75, 78, 103, 146
alleged sex-trafficking of, 30–31, 37–38
birth of, 113–14
raising of, 4, 137
welfare of, 56
Christianity, 90