A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with f
New York Post Best Book of 2016We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and phi
In a divided world, empathy is not the solution, it is the problem; a source of prejudice, not kindness.We think of empathy – the ability to feel the suffering of others for ourselves – as the ultimat
