The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World

“In this masterpiece, Jamil Zaki weaves together the very latest science with stories that will stay in your heart forever.”-Angela Duckworth, author of Grit

Don't miss Jamil Zaki's TED Talk, “We're experiencing an empathy shortage, but we can fix it together,” online now.

Empathy is in short supply. We struggle to understand people who aren't like us, but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago. In 2006, Barack Obama said that the U...