Reading books increases empathy. "Better Angels Of Our Nature" went

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into how humans went from burning women at the stake and watching, to creating human rights legislation and enforcing it, in 400 years because more and more people picked up books and spent time in someone else's life for a week or a few days at a time. Is this why the GOP put Betsy Devos in the education department and is making college unaffordable? To destroy empathy and the ties that bind us together.