At 50, being the "singlish" parent of a very inquisitive, high energy 10-year-old boy keeps me on my toes. Daniel asks questions from the second he wakes up at 7 a.m. until I've dropped him off at school and moved out of his field of vision. His second shift runs...

In "The Empathic Civilization," Jeremy Rifkin makes the important argument that empathy can be a potent force to alleviate global conflicts. I wholeheartedly agree -- and from my work on empathy in healthcare settings and post-war reconciliation, I believe we need empathy based on genuine curiosity about how other people...