The Author

Tom Lovett is an independent researcher and a generalist. Many years ago, he became interested in three questions. Why do liberals and conservatives differ so consistently on such varied issues? Why do people fight so bitterly over political and religious issues? Don’t our shared human interests outweigh our differences?

Lovett looked for answers in the natural sciences, in the social sciences, and in the humanities. Over time, he linked key knowledge from those three sources into a theory of the art of living, a theory that honors our shared human interests. You will find it in his first book, Creating Beautiful Lives (2020). His new book contains quotations that illustrate the theory.

He has a BA degree in Political Science from Cornell College and an MBA degree from Northern Illinois University. His career in Wisconsin state government was in health care reform. He and wife, Anne, live in Madison, Wisconsin next to the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, a site of pioneering research in the science of restoration ecology.