If Only?

 Do you remember when the news sites were rippling with suggestions that neuroscientiests had found a link between "reading serious literature" and increased empathy? While discarding old papers from my files I came across an essay by Prof. Julie Sedivy from a 2017 issue of Nautilus. 

Without discarding the research entirely, Sedivy pretty much shows the holes that can be poked into the various findings. But I have to admit: I want to believe that our reading habits can make us better people.