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Here are the results from about 23,000 American citizens.

But as people get more conservative, the values rise.

So the conversation began at Bennington.

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People are like, OK, if you don't do aid,

But look at the other three lines.

When the liberal team loses, as it did in 2004, and as it almost did in 2000, we comfort ourselves.

For liberals, the scores are very low.

Having made that decision they came to the United States, home of liberal arts education, to talk with some of us most closely identified with that kind of education.

Now, the balance that I try to fight for,

And in this case, the stereotype corresponds to reality.

Now we've given up with the idea of sermons.

You have the markings of Shiva on the right,

Damn liberal) (Laughter)

Polarization rises.

They give high endorsement of these sorts of statements all across the board, but as you also see,

let's let everybody see who's here please raise your hand if you would say that you are liberal or left of center.

Understanding why computer science is a liberal art depends on actually understanding what the liberal arts are.

The main researcher of this trait, Robert McCrae says that,

In truth, liberal arts education no longer exists at least genuine liberal arts education in this country.

Now this is a social disaster, and liberals are very concerned about this.

You vote, we act!

The signs don't look good, some have said.

And now we get to the crux of the disagreement between liberals and conservatives.

Given this rare opportunity to start fresh, they chose liberal arts as the most compelling model because of its historic commitment to furthering its students' broadest intellectual, and deepest ethical potential.

Won't a diet heavy in fruit and vegetables turn us into godless, sissy, liberals?

Well, let's see now, if openness predicts who becomes liberal, and openness predicts who becomes a TEDster, then might we predict that most TEDsters are liberal?

Suppose you learn that this particular breed is independent minded, and relates to its owner as a friend and an equal?

Traditional authority, traditional morality can be quite repressive, and restrictive to those at the bottom, to women, to people that don't fit in.

It's all about how the logic of computing relates to things in both the art of Escher and the music of Bach.

But Agnes cared more about the trappings of power than she did principle at the end.

Now, this is what I want to think of as the White Effect .

I'm going to ask you to raise your hand, whether you are liberal, left of center on social issues, we're talking about, primarily or conservative, and I'll give a third option, because I know there are a number of libertarians in the audience.

I think this is what we come with, at least a preparedness to learn all of these things.

But as I witness in the Occupy movement in my city and through reports in other spots,

And what it turned out was going on was that Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that, actually,

If you're conservative, and you learn that a dog's extremely loyal to its home and family, and doesn't warm up quickly to strangers, for conservatives, well, loyalty is good dogs ought to be loyal.

Sooo... can we call these douchebags the block block ?!

In some sense this is arguably the easiest one to defend, but it's probably the one that was most surprising to many of you.

So, you might say, OK, there are these differences between liberals and conservatives, but what makes those three other foundations moral?

So if you really care about strengthening families, you might want to talk to some liberal groups who are working on promoting educational equality, who are working on raising the minimum wage, who are working on finding ways to stop so many men from being sucked into the criminal justice system and taken out of the marriage market for their whole lives.

It demands that we optimize ourselves, that we control ourselves, that we self manage continuously, because that's the only way in which such a liberal society works.

A new liberal arts that can support this action oriented curriculum has begun to emerge.

They are abstract questions in the sense that we can form them as mathematical, precise questions, but they are also really questions about what are the limits and what are the possibilities in our universe.