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The Counterfeit Compassion Fueling Lindsay Clancy’s Cult Of Personality

Episode length: 45m

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On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour, Joe Rigney, pastor and fellow of theology at New Saint Andrews College in Idaho, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to analyze the counterfeit compassion fueling alleged murderer Lindsay Clancy's cult of personality and discuss how toxic empathy justifies evil and delays justice.

You can find Rigney's book Leadership and the Sin of Empathy: Compassion and Its Counterfeits here.

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Matt Kittle