Recently, the Minneapolis Star Tribune featured a page in their op ed section on transgender issues. In Minnesota, our governor and our attorney general have stood up firmly for transgender rights. This is my response to the two strongly positive articles on this page: Thank you for devoting the Strib Voices page on October 16 […]
There are lots of ways to gain empathy for others. There’s the media—books, TV, movies, online videos, podcasts. There are the people we meet—co-workers from different cultures, students at the university we are attending, neighbors down the street who maybe put up a menorah in their window in December instead of a Christmas tree. The […]
There is a beautiful article in the Opinion section of the New York Times that never uses the word empathy, but is all about it. Jennifer Finney Boylan talks movingly, and personally, about how we need to bring back Edmund Burke’s concept of “moral imagination”. It is, she says, “the idea that our ethics should […]