Is the west suffering from too much empathy? The argument has been advanced by Gad Saad in his New York Times best seller Suicidal
Empathy: Dying to Be Kind , where he argues that excessive empathy from
the political left is leading society down a self destructive path. But there is another perspective which argues that we need more empathy not less. Adrian Goldberg hears from Vaughan Smith – a war correspondent and one of the founders of London’s Frontline Club – whose new book The Extraction Pattern stands as a rebuttal of Gad Saad.

Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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