True confession: It took me three sessions to make it through Allie Beth Stuckey’s interview with New York Times writer and erstwhile conservative David French, an interview that did him no favors. Between his intellectual dishonesty and his distracting fidgeting, squirming, sock-pulling, and nervous swallowing—all telltale signs of a man whose pants are on fire—it was a difficult 90 minutes to endure.
The conversation began with a debate on “toxic empathy,” which is Allie’s term for “feeling so deeply for a person that because of those feelings you end up affirming sin, validating lies, or supporting destructive policies.” In discussing “toxic empathy,” the issue of abortion was raised, specifically, “abortion abolitionism.”
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