• • Reading boosts empathy, but sympathy for the devil too 
Russell Smith, Globe and Mail (Toronto) [T]here’s a dangerous corollary to the idea that stories can affect your morality – surely it means that they can corrupt as well? What about stories that denounce or deride empathy, that describe success and social order through sheer self-centredness (e.g. Ayn Rand)?   Published: 2012-05-16