How compassion could be key to solving the West’s ills

Politics: The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis, By Martha C Nussbaum, Oxford University Press, €21.85

Writing more than a century ago in the first volume of his seven-part magnum opus À la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust related the experience of a child disposed to fear, making him prone to want to control others. The young narrator of the book commands his mother to remain in his ...