On Feb. 24, 2014, the Aspen Institute held an event at the Washington National Cathedral commemorating 50 years of featuring Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in the Aspen Seminar.
With a discussion led by Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacs on, the talk featured some of the country’s greatest thinkers: civil rights leader….
A new study shows why empathy doesn’t cross the political aisle. .. Led by Ed O’Brien, scientists from the University of Michigan crafted a study on inter-party empathy based on prior data on the emotion, which finds that our ability to em…
Compassion is the working side of love. It is the reaching out and touching back of one soul to another. It is the acknowledgement and true understanding that we are all in this together.Compassion is an ache-filled knowing that we all need the same th…
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The ability to express empathy – the capacity to share and feel another’s emotions – is limited by the stress of being around strangers, according to a new study published recently in the journal Current Biology.“President Barac…
