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See also hate crimes; rampage shootings; September 11, 2001, attacks

—DEATHS FROM

double-counted as war deaths, 193

number of, 192–5, 192, 194–5, 194, 469n10

vs. other causes, 191–2, 192, 193

Tetlock, Philip, 367–71, 373, 378–9, 404

Texas, capital punishment in, 211

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 284

Thailand, 259, 336, 419, 457n8

Thatcher, Margaret, 110, 315

theism and theistic morality, 419, 420–22, 428–30

Argument from Design, 18, 421, 423

and consciousness, hard problem of, 423, 425–8, 488n43

deism vs., 8, 18, 22, 422

and existence of God, arguments against, 421–2

fundamental physical constants and, 423–5

God of the Gaps argument, 423–8

refutation of theistic morality, 428–30

wars motivated by, 10, 429–30

See also deism and deists; God; secularization

theoconservatism, 448–9

theocracy, 201, 206, 430

theodicy, 39, 423

Thermodynamics, Laws of, 15–16

See also Entropy, Law of

thick tails. See power-law distribution; rare events

Thiel, Peter, 329

Thomas, Dylan, 53

Thoreau, Henry David, 268

Three Mile Island accident (1979), 146, 148

Time magazine, 151

Timor-Leste, 203

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 165, 437

Togo, 272, 475n30

Tolstoy, Leo, 284

Tooby, John, 17, 359, 414, 477n20

Torrijos, Omar, 447

trade

benefits of, 13, 84, 162, 198–9, 228

Trump and international, 334–5

Tragedy of the Belief Commons. See identity-protective cognition

Tragedy of the Commons, 141

for beliefs, 358, 359, 376, 379

for carbon emissions, 141, 151, 153, 154

transgenic crops, 77–8, 331

transportation

agriculture and food supply and, 75, 77, 78

and human closeness, 257

plane travel, 257–8, 258

See also motor vehicles

travel/tourism, 258–9, 259, 338

treaties

Kellogg-Briand (Paris Peace) pact (1928), 163–4

New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), 317, 318

Non-Proliferation Treaty (1970), 316–17

nuclear weapons atmospheric testing ban, 133–4

ozone layer protection, 134

Paris climate agreement, 134, 152, 335, 449

sulfur emissions (acid rain prevention), 134

of Westphalia, 450

tribalism

deontological ethics and, 417

vs. Enlightenment ideals, 5, 10, 29, 32, 333, 334, 341, 447–51

human nature, as part of, 26, 393, 417, 419, 450

political, as source of irrationality, 355–63, 383

See also identity-protective cognition; populism; racism

Trump, Donald

age rolloff in support for, 341–2, 342

antidemocratic agenda of, 335–6, 337, 374, 449

antiprogress agenda of, 334–7

approval ratings of, 338

attempts to repeal Obamacare, 109, 334

dystopian vision of, xvii, 343

failures of, 109, 337–8, 451

on hackers, 300

and immigration, 97, 336, 339

institutional limits on power of, 337–8

intellectual influences, 343, 447–50, 491n118

Islamophobia and, 219

lies and conspiracy theories of, 336, 358, 375, 376

nuclear weapons and, 320

and Paris climate agreement, 134, 152, 335, 449

prejudice and hate crimes and, 217, 219

and Vladimir Putin, 335, 336

and will to power, 336

See also populism

—CAMPAIGN AND ELECTION AS PRESIDENT

economic vs. cultural factors in, 339–40

as Electoral College win, 214, 334, 340

Evangelical Christian support, 432–3, 438

intolerant rhetoric of, 215

“Make American Great Again,” 5, 334, 337

media role in, 50, 343, 376, 449

pollster predictions for, 367

popular vote loss of, 338

shrinking demographic base of, 219, 341–2, 342

voter turnout and, 343, 438

truth

vs. expressive performance, 359

institutions and norms of, 27, 374, 376, 380

Nietzsche and, 446

as not always halfway between extremes, 365

power of, 27, 338, 379, 383–4

vs. rationalization, 359

science vs. erudition as way to seek, 34, 390

vs. Trump, 336, 376

See also objective measurement; “post-truth era”; reason; relativism

Tsarnaev brothers, 303, 306

Tunisia, 203, 442

Tupy, Marian, 52, 141

Turkey, 201, 336, 436, 490n96

Tuskegee syphilis study, 401

Tutsi people, 161

Tversky, Amos, 41, 47, 383, 404

Twenge, Jean, 282, 283

Two Cultures, The (Snow), 33–4, 389. See also Second Culture

Übermensch, 443–5, 447. See also Nietzsche, Friedrich

Uganda, 160

Ukraine, 78, 158, 203, 313, 335

ul Haq, Mahbub, 245

Unabomber, 122

Union of Concerned Scientists, 308, 312

Unitarians, 412

United Kingdom

Brexit vote, 334, 340, 341–2, 342, 343

capital punishment abolition in, 209

carbon emissions per dollar of GDP, 143, 143

economic freedom in, 483n39

economic inequality in, 105–6, 106

emancipative values in, 225–7, 226, 227

escape from poverty and, 84–5, 85

Falkland Islands war, 315

GDP of, 85

happiness ranking of, 271, 475n30

life expectancy at birth, 58–9, 58

literacy in, 236

nuclear weapons and, 317, 317, 320

Optimism Gap and, 40

Peak Stuff, 135–6

populism and, 334, 338–9

secularization and, 436, 437

social spending in, 108, 483n39

and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 419

woman as leader of, 214

women’s rights in, 222

See also England

United Nations

and capital punishment, 209

corporal punishment condemned by, 229–30

declaration on violence against women, 222

“extreme poverty” as defined by, 87

gender parity in education in, 239–40

HIV/AIDS epidemic, plan to end, 66

homicide reduction, goal for, 468n15