“Tenderness cut off from its source ends in terror“ “In 1961, Flannery O’Connor warned that tenderness cut off from truth ends in the gas chamber. Sixty years later we call that untethered feeling ’empathy’ — and we call it a virtue. It isn’t. Drawing on Paul Bloom’s Against Empathy, Aquinas on the passions, and the… Read More Flannery O’Connor Warned That False Empathy “Ends in the Gas Chamber”
By Pieter Vree, Editor New Oxford Review Is he serious? On the return flight from his visit to Lebanon late last year, Pope Leo XIV said the West should be “a little less fearful” of Islam (Dec. 2). This “fear,” he said, is “often generated by people who are against immigration and trying to keep… Read More Suicidal Empathy, European Style
Good Fences, Shared Bounty. Can it ever be wise to separate compassion, reasonable limits and common sense? If you have followed the immigration debates in the West in recent decades you will have long ago gotten a glimpse of the fears, greed, fanaticism and wars which, often enough, make many peoples in our post 9/11… Read More Immigration, Birds of a Feather and Trojan Horses
Alex Epstein writes, “Save the World with . . . Fossil Fuels? In this book I’m going to try to persuade you of something that may seem crazy to you—something that definitely used to seem crazy to me. I’m going to try to persuade you that if you want to make the world a better… Read More Why We Must Think More About Fossil Fuel Policy If We Really Care About Human Beings
