Both left and right have overly elevated feelings over facts.
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Is empathy—defined by Merriam-Webster as “the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another”—a feeling? Or is it a virtue? And is women’s greater propensity for empathy wrecking our societal order?
These are some of the questions animating (and sometimes paralyzing) conversations among thought leaders on today’s political right.
