A review by ameyawarde
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua D. Greene

5.0

Greene takes a subject that less nerdy folks might find somewhat dry (moral philosophy and neuroscience!) and with a conversational and funny style, makes it eminently readable. Which is great because it allows me to recommend this book to EVERYONE, regardless of level of nerdiness (So long as its at least at the level of reading non-fiction). I got this book after the cluster**** of the 2016 election, looking for ways to understand and communicate with, the other side. This absolutely helped me understand the differences in the way I think and other significant chunks of my country, and, while it doesn't directly address how to communicate across the aisle like another book I'm currently reading does, it also adds important depth of understanding to my reading of the communication-based book.

Especially for my friends involved in politics &/or activism, I highly recommend checking this out. And, if you're into audio books, the narration on this is EXCELLENT and makes for quite enjoyable listening, actually. Someone who doesn't listen to audiobooks drove somewhere with my recently, and this was my commute listening, and they were confused as to why it sounded like someone super intelligent was just conversationally chatting with us, instead of, i guess, dry boring book-reading. To me that's a good recommendation for the audiobook!