The Glenn Beck Program Best of the Program | Guests: Allie Beth Stuckey & Justin Haskins | 2/3/26
Feb 3, 2026
Allie Beth Stuckey, conservative commentator and author of Toxic Empathy, and Justin Haskins, policy researcher and author of The Next Big Crash, join to tackle culture and markets. They debate when compassion becomes harmful and strategies to restore reason. They also map looming financial threats, from derivatives risk to structural changes in investment ownership.
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Empathy Can Produce Out-Group Cruelty
- High empathy toward an in-group can increase cruelty to an out-group, per Paul Bloom and Stuckey's summary.
- Replacing Christian virtue with unchecked empathy can make people cruel toward perceived enemies.
Use Counterstories To Persuade
- Tell the other side of the story and humanize those affected by policies to broaden empathy.
- Use facts plus narrative to expand hearts and minds and make persuasion possible.
Derivatives Market Risks Are Systemic
- Justin Haskins warns the derivatives market has ballooned to about one quadrillion dollars, far exceeding underlying assets.
- He says that scale makes the financial system fragile and susceptible to catastrophic crashes.
