Dr. Claire Yorke: Can Empathy Fix Broken Politics?
It’s easy right now to believe that the divisions we see are simply too deep to repair. That empathy has become a liability. That listening has been replaced by winning.
And yet, I still believe, perhaps more than ever, that empathy remains our greatest tool for healing even the most jagged fractures in our world, not as a naïve ideal, but as a courageous, strategic choice. And that choice has the power to transform entire systems.
My guest today, Dr. Claire Yorke, has devoted her career to studying exactly that possibility.
We explore what empathy in politics actually looks like, why empathy…
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