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Peter Thiel Anti-Christ? Coates Teaches Klein, & TX War On Your Rights
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Left Reckoning • Oct 1, 2025

Peter Thiel Anti-Christ? Coates Teaches Klein, & TX War On Your Rights

The Right’s Latest Culture War Crusade is Against Empathy
Current Affairs • Sep 30, 2025

The Right’s Latest Culture War Crusade is Against Empathy

Elon Musk doesn’t like empathy, which he calls the “fundamental weakness of western civilization,” which people “exploit.” The late Charlie Kirk did not like empathy either, commenting that "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that—it does a lot of damage." (He said he preferred “sympathy,” but did not explain what he meant, and elsewhere suggested that it was unimaginable for him to empathize with his own child.) Two conservative Christians have published books arguing that empathy can be corrosive, Allie Beth Stuckey’s Toxic Empathy and Joe Rigney’s The Sin of Empathy. Pastor Josh McPherson, on his “Stronger Man Nation” podcast, was emphatically anti-empathy: “Empathy almost needs to be struck from the Christian vocabulary… Empathy is dangerous. Empathy is toxic. Empathy will align you with hell.”

Cross on the Moon feat. Brendan James | Chapo Trap House
Chapo Trahouse • Sep 30, 2025

Cross on the Moon feat. Brendan James | Chapo Trap House

Why All Animals Are Sentient, and Machines Will Never Be
Current Affairs • Sep 29, 2025

Why All Animals Are Sentient, and Machines Will Never Be

When I was 26, my right first molar fell to pieces. It had been decaying from a cavity hidden between my teeth, and I was a part-time service worker who had not seen a dentist in years. But the United States healthcare system permitted my parents’ insurance to cover me for several more months, so in shame, I visited my mother, who brought me to a dentist, both affordable and negligent. He conducted a root canal with insufficient anesthetic. I lay, sentient, as he severed each of the three nerves anchoring my tooth with a drill. It was excruciating.

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