Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi It’s uncontroversial to say that empathy—considering others’ feelings and experiences—is a social good. But in his new book Suicidal Empathy, evolutionary psychologist Dr. Gad Saad argues that there can be too much of a good thing. Gad joins Coleman on the latest episode of his podcast to discuss the evolutionary and psychological roots of what he considers our society’s hyperactive empathy, and whether compassion has begun to override reason in American life. Has empathy gone too far? And what do we lose, both individually and as a society, when moral sentiment replaces moral judgment? All that and more on the latest Conversations with Coleman. 00:00 — Opening & Thesis: “Suicidal Empathy” 00:44- Ad 01:15 — Growing Up Jewish in Lebanon 06:41 — From Beirut to Montreal: Exile & Aftermath 07:41 — Identity Politics As Lived Reality 16:48 — When Empathy Turns Pathological 24:43 — Where Did “Suicidal Empathy” Come From? 30:19— The Left’s Blind Spots & Empathy on the Right 38:07 — Timber, Tariffs, and Causality 42:27 — Are Left/Right Just Tribes? 50:56 — Winners, Status Signals, and the Victimhood Economy 57:53 — The Cure: Calibrating Empathy 1:00:08 — Wrap & Plugs