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As shocking as Musk’s views are, however, they are far from unique. On the one hand, there is the familiar and widespread conservative critique of “bleeding heart” liberals as naive or overly ...

People tend to think of empathy or caring about other people's feelings as a good thing, but in some conservative circles, there's a growing chorus of voices arguing that empathy could be bad.

(RNS) — A small but influential group of evangelicals argues that enforcing the law is as important as mercy, and has come to see Christian charities as the enemy. (RNS) — When Bishop Mariann Budde ...

My friend was at the grocery store the other day and casually shared with another shopper that she was reading Spark the Heart: Engineering Empathy in Your Organization. Prior to learning the title of ...

While empathy is an essential ingredient for solid, supportive relationships, it comes at a cost. Research shows that empathy is a whole-body experience: We mirror each other’s physiology alongside ...

Yesterday I watched the video clips of 50 immigrants—men, women, and children from Venezuela—being dumped at a local airfield in Martha’s Vineyard, a very small Massachusetts island off the coast of ...

It was once considered a virtue. Why do some people now think it’s a bad thing? Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomas Supported by By Jennifer Szalai There’s an arresting quotation that ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Five years ago, Elon Musk told Joe Rogan during a podcast taping that “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit.” By that ...

In an interview this year with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk quipped that “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” He seemed to blame it, in part, for the decline of America’s cultural ...