Like a good moral intuitionist, I was political before I was politically aware—that is, for example, I supported same-sex marriage before I knew that this was a “liberal” as opposed to a “conservative” belief, or that it put more in step with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. My politicization occurred in 2003 when I was transitioning from an undergraduate to a social psychology graduate student, and the U.S. was transforming its foreign policy to include preemptive war. Read more »
