The prophet’s lesson is also ours: We must recover compassion for neighbor and enemy alike, or our words will be hollow. Political discourse today is increasingly marked more by bitter conflict than ...

Editors’ Note: Details from this post appeared in similar form in a July, 2011, piece by Jonah Lehrer for Wired magazine, U.K. We regret the duplication of material. On January 30, 1986, shortly after ...