The Paradox of Public Apologies

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7 min readJul 2, 2019

By: Sean Culleton

This story originally appeared on TrigTent.

Public apologies are a dying political art. Like iambic pentameter and film photography, public apologies exact a heavy toll on those who try them. There is seemingly no way to do apologize well enough to appease the masses mostly because the proportion and timing of an apology will rarely fit the nature of the act that…

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