Fathers and Brothers, Sisters and MU/TH/UR: A Review of Predator: Badlands
Predator: Badlands is mythic and weirdly intimate: a cosmic family drama wearing the skin of a sci-fi monster movie.
The Founders Trilogy Celebrates the Power of Human Empathy. But Should It?
Empathy fails as a means of salvation because it presumes that understanding alone is enough to compel virtuous behavior.
The Mysterious Benedict Society Recap: You Are Seen (Episode 8)
In a variety of ways, The Mysterious Benedict Society series is more emotive and less disciplined than its print counterpart.
The Mysterious Benedict Society Recap: Truth, Empathy (and Virtue?) (Episodes 1 and 2)
Can The Mysterious Benedict Society, a book that skewers screen-based media culture, be fully realized on just such a screen?
Manifesto: Mad Comedian Liberation Front or It Sure Does Take a Lot to Laugh
Chappelle’s best comedy holds, as it were, a fun-house mirror up to our nature.
Empathy, Compassion, and Giving Back in the Geek Community
Dungeons and Dragons is a game deeply rooted in empathy; seeing it used to urge compassion should inspire us all.
Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers, an Invitation to Empathetic Discomfort
Perhaps Mbue’s purpose was to evoke in me just a tiny bit of the frantic sense of what it is to be an immigrant, to be fixated on a version of a dream that will never come true.
Do Humans Dream of Empathic Robots? What a Blade Runner Can Teach Us about the Image of God
In the Philip K. Dick novel that inspired Blade Runner, empathy is what sets humans apart from androids.
Solidarity, BBC Dad
BBC Dad started that interview as an expert on Korean politics, but he ended it as Every Parent Ever.
Why the Powerful Often Lack Empathy
“It feels good to be king.”
