Americans seemed to be into empathy from roughly post-WWII to the 2000s. Then things started going sideways. Now, it's "Empathy, but just for your own team. And empathizing with the other team? That's practically a taboo. And it turns out that this brand of selective empathy is a powerful force." " NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM on April 15, 2019