{"podcast":{"title":"Byline Times Podcast","slug":"byline-times-podcast-555132","podcast_index_feed_id":555132,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/bylinetimespod","website_url":"https://bylinetimes.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/1fab8ea2-f7f8-11ee-93eb-eba32e616a3d/image/4bbbe808fd2361c2af02b33faf294112.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Adrian Goldberg","episode_count":571,"summary":"Adrian Goldberg explores the latest political stories from Westminster and the world.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-18T12:17:43.777460+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/byline-times-podcast-555132"},"episode":{"title":"Why We Need More Empathy - Not Less","slug":"why-we-need-more-empathy-not-less","published_at":"2026-08-09T06:36:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/byline-times-podcast-555132/why-we-need-more-empathy-not-less","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/byline-times-podcast-555132","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/BYLINEMEDIAHOLDINGSLTD4121268963.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/BYLINEMEDIAHOLDINGSLTD4121268963.mp3","summary":"Is the west suffering from too much empathy? The argument has been advanced by Gad Saad in his New York Times best seller Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind , where he argues that excessive empathy from the political left is leading society down a self destructive path. But there is another perspective which argues that we need more empathy not less. Adrian Goldberg hears from Vaughan Smith - a war correspondent and one of the founders of London’s Frontline Club - whose new book The Extraction Pattern stands as a rebuttal of Gad Saad. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Is the west suffering from too much empathy? The argument has been advanced by Gad Saad in his New York Times best seller Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Ki…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1882,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/byline-times-podcast-555132/episodes/why-we-need-more-empathy-not-less/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/byline-times-podcast-555132/why-we-need-more-empathy-not-less.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}