Stephen T. Asma is professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago as well as a senior fellow of the Research Group in Mind, Science, and Culture. He is the author of many books, most recently The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition and The Evolution of Imagination, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• Acknowledgments1  Even Jesus Had a FavoriteSaints and FavoritesFairness, Tribes, and NephewsTwo Classic Cases of Favoritism2 To Thy Own Tribe Be True: Biological FavoritismMoral GravityThe Biochemistry of FavoritismHumans Are Wired for FavoritismA Healthy AddictionFlexible FavoritismKin SelectionRational or Emotional MotivesConflicting Brain SystemsFacts and Values3 In Praise of ExceptionsBuilding the Grid of ImpartialityGoing Off the GridFriendship and FavoritismReasonable Favoritism 4 “But, Dad, That’s Not Fair!”The Fusion of Feelings and IdeasSowing the Seeds of Confusion: SharingSowing the Seeds of Confusion: Open MindsEnvy and FairnessExcellence, Fairness, and Favoritism5 The Circle of Favors: Global PerspectivesChinese FavoritismFace CultureIndian FavoritismDisentangling Nepotism and CorruptionDisentangling Tribalism and Tragedy6 “Your People Shall Be My People?” Minorities, Majorities, and FavoritismAffirmative Action and FavoritismThe Finite StretchFeeling the Stones with Your Feet 7 Because You’re Mine, I Walk the LineThe Virtues of FavoritismYou Can’t Love Humanity. You Can Only Love PeopleThe Future of FavoritismThe Archbishop and the ChambermaidNotesIndex

“Mr. Asma offers a rightly critical diagnosis of our obsession with egalitarianism.”

Stephen T. Asma is professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago as well as a senior fellow of the Research Group in Mind, Science, and Culture. He is the author of many books, most recently The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition and The Evolution of Imagination, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• Acknowledgments1  Even Jesus Had a FavoriteSaints and FavoritesFairness, Tribes, and NephewsTwo Classic Cases of Favoritism2 To Thy Own Tribe Be True: Biological FavoritismMoral GravityThe Biochemistry of FavoritismHumans Are Wired for FavoritismA Healthy AddictionFlexible FavoritismKin SelectionRational or Emotional MotivesConflicting Brain SystemsFacts and Values3 In Praise of ExceptionsBuilding the Grid of ImpartialityGoing Off the GridFriendship and FavoritismReasonable Favoritism 4 “But, Dad, That’s Not Fair!”The Fusion of Feelings and IdeasSowing the Seeds of Confusion: SharingSowing the Seeds of Confusion: Open MindsEnvy and FairnessExcellence, Fairness, and Favoritism5 The Circle of Favors: Global PerspectivesChinese FavoritismFace CultureIndian FavoritismDisentangling Nepotism and CorruptionDisentangling Tribalism and Tragedy6 “Your People Shall Be My People?” Minorities, Majorities, and FavoritismAffirmative Action and FavoritismThe Finite StretchFeeling the Stones with Your Feet 7 Because You’re Mine, I Walk the LineThe Virtues of FavoritismYou Can’t Love Humanity. You Can Only Love PeopleThe Future of FavoritismThe Archbishop and the ChambermaidNotesIndex

“Mr. Asma offers a rightly critical diagnosis of our obsession with egalitarianism.”

Stephen T. Asma is professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago as well as a senior fellow of the Research Group in Mind, Science, and Culture. He is the author of many books, most recently The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition and The Evolution of Imagination, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• Acknowledgments1  Even Jesus Had a FavoriteSaints and FavoritesFairness, Tribes, and NephewsTwo Classic Cases of Favoritism2 To Thy Own Tribe Be True: Biological FavoritismMoral GravityThe Biochemistry of FavoritismHumans Are Wired for FavoritismA Healthy AddictionFlexible FavoritismKin SelectionRational or Emotional MotivesConflicting Brain SystemsFacts and Values3 In Praise of ExceptionsBuilding the Grid of ImpartialityGoing Off the GridFriendship and FavoritismReasonable Favoritism 4 “But, Dad, That’s Not Fair!”The Fusion of Feelings and IdeasSowing the Seeds of Confusion: SharingSowing the Seeds of Confusion: Open MindsEnvy and FairnessExcellence, Fairness, and Favoritism5 The Circle of Favors: Global PerspectivesChinese FavoritismFace CultureIndian FavoritismDisentangling Nepotism and CorruptionDisentangling Tribalism and Tragedy6 “Your People Shall Be My People?” Minorities, Majorities, and FavoritismAffirmative Action and FavoritismThe Finite StretchFeeling the Stones with Your Feet 7 Because You’re Mine, I Walk the LineThe Virtues of FavoritismYou Can’t Love Humanity. You Can Only Love PeopleThe Future of FavoritismThe Archbishop and the ChambermaidNotesIndex

“Mr. Asma offers a rightly critical diagnosis of our obsession with egalitarianism.”