{"podcast":{"title":"John Anderson: Conversations","slug":"john-anderson-conversations-66200","podcast_index_feed_id":66200,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10ef18ca4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://johnanderson.net.au/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45356785/5f73b971b78f2c88.jpg","author":"John Anderson","episode_count":249,"summary":"Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia John Anderson sits down with world-leading historians, economists, politicians, and thinkers to examine the ideas shaping our society. Drawing on decades at the highest levels of government, John brings rare depth and civility to conversations that mainstream media won't have. This podcast covers everything from Australia's political future to faith, freedom, and the fragility of Western democracy. Thoughtful, rigorous, and genuinely independent.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-anderson-conversations-66200"},"episode":{"title":"Suicidal Empathy Is Destroying The West | Gad Saad","slug":"suicidal-empathy-is-destroying-the-west-gad-saad","published_at":"2026-05-15T06:07:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-anderson-conversations-66200/suicidal-empathy-is-destroying-the-west-gad-saad","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-anderson-conversations-66200","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dual-citizens30/episodes/Suicidal-Empathy-Is-Destroying-The-West--Gad-Saad-e3jd8di","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10ef18ca4/podcast/play/120020850/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-15%2F424196437-44100-2-b6c2d98706db8.mp3","summary":"Professor Gad Saad argues that empathy directed at the wrong targets becomes a tool of civilisational self-destruction, and that every idea enabling this collapse was spawned on a university campus. Drawing on his own experience fleeing Lebanon as a Jewish child, Saad examines Britain's grooming gang scandal, the pathologisation of masculinity, and the incoherence of Queers for Palestine, noting Gaza practises what he calls a gravity-based conversion therapy. He closes with a sobering prognosis: the auto-corrections exist, but the West currently lacks the fortitude to implement any of them. Gad Saad is a Lebanese-Canadian evolutionary behavioural scientist and professor of marketing at Concordia University in Montreal. Born in 1964 in Lebanon, he emigrated to Canada as a child. His academic work applies evolutionary psychology and Darwinian principles to consumer behaviour — he's a legitimate researcher with a substantial peer-reviewed publication record, not purely a public intellectual who drifted into academia. His public profile expanded dramatically through his podcast The Saad Truth, launched around 2014, and accelerated through his 2020 book The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, which became a bestseller and cemented his position as a prominent voice in the anti-"woke" intellectual space.","meta_description":"Professor Gad Saad argues that empathy directed at the wrong targets becomes a tool of civilisational self-destruction, and that every idea enabling this…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4569,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/john-anderson-conversations-66200/episodes/suicidal-empathy-is-destroying-the-west-gad-saad/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-anderson-conversations-66200/suicidal-empathy-is-destroying-the-west-gad-saad.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}