The Empathetic Humanities Have Much to Teach Our Adversarial Culture
If they can encourage us to ‘always remember context, and never disregard intent’ – they afford something uniquely useful today
As anyone on Twitter knows, public culture can be quick to attack, castigate and condemn. In search of the moral high ground, we rarely grant each other the benefit of the doubt. In her Class Day remarks at Harvard’s 2018 graduation, the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addressed the problem ...
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