FILTER ACTIVE: Sentimentalism
FEBRUARY 2, 2026
The Weaponization of Empathy: When Compassion Becomes a Tyrant
In the discourse of the modern West, there is one word that has risen to a status of unquestionable divinity: Empathy. We see this clearly in the recent comments by the actor John Lithgow, who laments a "war on empathy" and finds it "inexplicable" that an author like J.K. Rowling...