Across the democratic West, politics has become deeply polarized and profoundly personal. Challenge someone’s political views and increasingly you challenge their very being.

And yet, do our political tribes even make sense? Look carefully, and on the most important ethical issues of the age––assisted dying, social welfare, sexual liberation, abortion, gun control, the environment, technology, justice––the instinctive positions of both the Left and the Right are riven with contradictions.

This lecture will question the basic assumptions of our political groups and mount a simple challenge: "Why should believing strongly about one topic mean the automatic adoption of so many others?"