Cultural Evolution: People’s Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World

The growing appeal of right-wing politics around the world, in particular with Donald Trump’s election, Brexit, and France’s National Front successes, has confounded both popular and sociological preconceptions of the direction global politics are headed. Among sociologists, these recent developments have challenged not only classic assumptions about the transition to modernity and the supposed movement toward rationality it entails. They have...