Jeffrey Jensen Arnett: 'The Empathic Civilization': The Young ...

The stereotype may actually be true for a small proportion of them, but it is unfairly applied to them as an age group and a generation. On the contrary, this is a generation who is volunteering in record numbers for organizations like the Peace Corps, Americorps, ... For this month's HuffPost Book Club, I have chosen Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilization, which boldly sets out to present nothing less than -- as Rifkin puts it -- "a new rendering of human history." ...