
The War For Kindness: Building Empathy In A Fractured World by Jamil Zaki (New York, Crown Publishing, 2019)
Why you should read it: Really, aren’t women already the nurturing, care-giving sex? Aren’t we briming with empathy and kindness, naturally? [Insert evil laugh track here]. We need more empathy – and we need to know when being empathetic is not useful. Empathy has eroded, and Jamil focuses ways to rebuild it (back by a lot of research, data and science).