Sense of Decency

Listening to others, seeing things through their eyes.

By DENNIS HARROD A famous cartoon shows Robespierre about to execute the executioner on the guillotine. The implication is that Robespierre and his colleagues of the French Revolution have now executed everyone, and only the executioner remains. An inscription says “Here lies all of France.”  I thought of that image this morning as I read …

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By JIM McKEEVER We need a better word, something stronger. When we talk about divisions in the country and the ways we reinforce and protect our beliefs, we fall back on words like “echo chamber” and “bubble.”  This is where we prefer to stay — our “safe space,” to use another popular term bordering on …

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