“Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the way in which a progressive might claim that empathy is a crucial aspect of any benign political system, and the way a conservative might argue that not only is it not necessary, but it might not even be all that helpful, in that regard.” WayHumansMeanMightPoliticalExerciseEmpathyAspectClaimsRegardConservativeArguingHelpfulProgressiveCrucialTraitsUsefulnessPolitical SystemsBenign Author:Jim Shepard
“The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows how many books you're deluged with. You can just say you never got to it.” IfsKnowsMeanBookHardKnow HowStudentsEtiquette Author:Jim Shepard
