The University of Auckland invited American political psychology star John Jost to present several nights of talks for the Vice-Chancellor’s Lecture Series. The first was in 2003 when he co-authored a paper synthesising decades of work on “conservatism” to make the argument that political attitudes and behaviours serve a psychological function. In this political moment, there’s a lot of chatter about entitlements – whether about the prime minister for claiming for using his own Wellington flat or tightening access to welfare