 Is empathy something that can be taught? Oh, you know, boy, I just look around the political system today and I think empathy is our number one problem. They're kind of the starting point that we have this big empathy gap. And that if you want to address issues of race or gender or poverty, then a starting point is to talk about empathy. And I do absolutely think that it can be taught, nurtured. We have a certain amount of practical experiments on that. You read a literary passage, and if you're tested afterward in psychology experiments, you feel more empathy. So we just have to read more books? Wouldn't it be like, have more people... Read the New York Times, read my columns? Okay, but wouldn't it be more human... I would imagine it would be more human contact, no? You know, I think that, I mean, in race, for example, a lot of it is having friends from a different background. One of the things that strikes one in this country is that the 20% of wealthiest Americans donate less to charity as percentage of incomes than the poorest 20% of Americans. And the reason, as a fraction of incomes that is, and the reason is, is that if you are affluent in America today, then by and large, you live insulated from need. While if you are poor in America today, then every day you encounter people poorer than yourself. When confronted by that need, you respond, you reach out.