Не спрашивай, по ком звонит Кавано.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-biggest-divides-on-the-kavanaugh-allegations-are-by-party-not-gender/

...34 percent of men did not find Ford’s allegation credible, compared with 23 percent of women. Yet 60 percent of Republicans did not think her allegation was credible, compared with 8 percent of Democrats.

When cross-party deals made today don't bring dividends tomorrow everything becomes a zero-sum partizan game. Covfefeism is now the norm: trade wars, culture wars, sanctions wars, Supreme Court wars, etc.

The Coddling of the American Mind.

This is another good book from {Greg Lukianoff &] Jonathan Haidt.

“Americans are now motivated to leave their couches to take part in political action not by love for their party’s candidate but by hatred of the other party’s candidate.

[They] bear such animosity toward one another that it’s almost as if many are holding up signs saying, “Please tell me something horrible about the other side, I’ll believe anything!”

On the business side, I agree with Adler's conclusion:

“Eric Adler, a classics professor at the University of Maryland, distilled the argument in a 2018 Washington Post article. “The fundamental cause [of campus intolerance],” he suggests, “isn’t students’ extreme leftism or any other political ideology” but “a market-driven decision by universities, made decades ago, to treat students as consumers—who pay up to $60,000 per year for courses, excellent cuisine, comfortable accommodations and a lively campus life.”

Some useful concepts, besides the main theme of the book:

- Fundamental Untruths (Introduction)
- CBT methods (Appendix 1)