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Apologizing

The Sins of the Fathers

From things for which Roman Catholic popes have apologized. Colonialism Complicity in the slave trade Passivity during the Holocaust The Inquisition Systemic sexual abuse Missionaries in China Sins against the…

Sorry not Sorry

by Iris Murdoch,

From Living on Paper, a collection of Iris Murdoch’s letters published next month by Princeton University Press and Chatto & Windus. Murdoch (1919–99) was the author of numerous novels, including The…

Doing the laundry

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Recantorium

by Charles Bernstein,

McStakes were made

by Tristan Kading,

Extending an Apology

by Harper’s Staff,

From a June 21 press conference held by Mel Lastman, the mayor of Toronto. Two weeks earlier, before visiting Mombasa, Kenya, to promote Toronto’s bid to host the 2008 Olympics,…