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 ...

(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 ...

In an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, billionaire and Trump megadonor Elon Musk offered his thoughts about what motivates political progressives to support immigration. In his view, the culprit ...

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” If you’re a fan of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a ...

In a previous column we explored empathy as a behavior that’s important in all relationships and is particularly useful as a leadership skill. We gained insights from Maria Ross, an empathy researcher ...

Now, with the economy still giving most Americans the jitters, the anti-empathy crowd is gearing up to take that win a step ...

While even the most determined leaders must be flexible, they must rely on another trait that allows them to be flexible: empathy. When a leader displays empathy—which means putting oneself in another ...

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 time, the idea that people in the West ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice ...