Helen Razer (2015) | Against Compassion

Compassion has become a commodity whose possession marks us as a
better person, or better than other people.


Writer and commentator Helen Razer diagnoses society with
compassion fatigue – and the physical burn out, trauma and
psychological depletion is real.


Helen Razer is a writer, broadcaster and commentator who is now
chiefly engaged in the work of writing on social and cultural
matters. She works with Crikey, The Saturday Paper and a range of
publications who permit her to say terrible things. Her fifth
book, A Short History of Stupid, remains a best-seller and was
recently shortlisted for the NSW State Library's inaugural
Russell Prize.