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According to Gad Saad, when empathy is stripped of limits, trade-offs and self-protection, it stops being humane and starts being suicidal. In his new book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, released this week, the longtime Canadian professor warns that countries like ours are turning that treasured virtue of empathy and dialling it to an extreme, so it becomes a slow acting poison from within. The question Saad presses is whether the West still believes it has a right to prioritize its own citizens, culture and institutions — or whether the urge to appear infinitely kind is the new...