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When Empathy Goes Too Far with Dr. Gad Saad
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A conversation with Dr. Gad Saad about compassion, politics, and what happens when feelings replace facts.

It’s uncontroversial to say that empathy—considering others’ feelings and experiences—is a social good. But in his new book Suicidal Empathy, evolutionary psychologist Dr. Gad Saad argues that there can be too much of a good thing, and that the political left has taken empathy to such an extreme that it’s leading to disastrous policy outcomes.

I sat down…

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