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When Empathy Goes Too Far with Dr. Gad Saad

When Empathy Goes Too Far with Dr. Gad Saad

Conversations with Coleman

October 20, 20251h 3m

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Show Notes

Dr. Gad Saad is a visiting scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom in Mississippi and an evolutionary psychologist. We discuss his forthcoming book, Suicidal Empathy, in which he argues that the political left has taken empathy to a dangerous extreme. We also talk about his childhood as a Jew in Lebanon and his family’s experience during the Lebanese Civil War. Has empathy gone too far? And is it really a phenomenon unique to the political left?

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