What is “suicidal empathy” and can good intentions actually destroy a civilization?
In this episode of The Brief: Insights From The Inside, host Shabbos Kestenbaum sits down with Professor Gad Saad, evolutionary psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, to unpack how victimhood culture, open borders, soft-on-crime policies, censorship, and misplaced compassion can produce devastating real-world consequences.
Saad explains why empathy is not inherently bad — but becomes dangerous when it “hyper fires” toward the wrong targets and overrides reason, judgment, and self-preservation.
The conversation covers open borders, free speech, Canada’s MAID laws, anti-Semitism, civilizational decline, and whether the West still has the will to correct course.
