How You Can Be a Less Politically Polarizing Person

ne night last month at Union Hall, a bar in Brooklyn, I attended a show put on by the Empiricist League (“A creative community for those who believe in evidence, observation, and experiment”) called “Mind Hacking.” The event description, on Facebook, consisted of a series of questions that I, in a contrarian mood, began to answer pessimistically: “In an increasingly divided world, how can we ‘hack’ our minds to cultivate traits like compassion and trust?” . “How do partisanship and group identity impact our ability to think and analyze, especially in our social media-driven world?” . “Can we train ourselves to be more rational and less.