A night spent drinking and writing about his parents' divorce uncovered an urgent need in Stanford professor Jamil Zaki to author THE WAR FOR KINDNESS: BUILDING EMPATHY IN A FRACTURED WORLD. He and James talk about how empathy can literally grow parts of the brain, hating the term hard-wired, facing the problems of the world today, and (sigh) STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. Plus Michael Nye returns to talk about reviving and relaunching STORY. 

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Jamil Zaki: https://profiles.stanford.edu/jamil-zaki

Buy THE WAR FOR KINDNESS: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451499240 

Jamil and James discuss: 

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION 

Deanna Troi 

The Good Samaritan 

Princeton 

Manchester United 

Liverpool 

Allen Iverson 

Bill Nye

Borderlinks 

Life After Hate 

WRECK-IT RALPH

Contact Theory 

Angela King

THE NEW YORK TIMES 

Defensive dehumanization 

Amanda Cook 

Gareth Cook 

Bread Loaf Writer's Conference 

Carl Sagan  

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Michael Nye: http://mpnye.com/

Subscribe to STORY: https://www.storymagazine.org/

Michael and James discuss: 

STORY 

Lee K. Abbott

Travis Kurowski 

AWP Conference 

Dave Housley 

BARRELHOUSE

MISSOURI REVIEW 

RIVER STYX

BOULEVARD 

HUNGER MOUNTAIN

ONE STORY

PLOUGHSHARES  

"Nude" By Claudia Hinz 

"World's End" by Clare Beams 

Valerie Cumming 

Ohio State

"Amputation of the Angels" by Kyle Minor

LaTanya McQueen

Shanie Latham

THE PARIS REVIEW

THE KENYON REVIEW

BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

Anne Valente 

Michael Croley 

COLUMBUS ALIVE

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