Civic Leadership Lecture Series: The Myth of Left and Right
The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America
Thursday, April 25th at 5:30 p.m. | Toyota Auditorium, Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs
In this lecture, brothers Hyrum Lewis, Brigham Young University, Idaho, and Verlan Lewis, Utah Valley University, will discuss how, contrary to popular and scholarly belief, there are no durable political philosophies behind our political categories of liberal and conservative and left and right. Instead, these categories have evolved in often strange and incoherent ways. Hence, what binds liberals and conservatives is tribal loyalty rather than consistent principles. These categories, in turn, generate confusion and hostility and undermine our ability to engage in reasoned debate.
