How the Absence of Shame Weakens Democracy
The New Yorker · 22 Sep 2026

How the Absence of Shame Weakens Democracy

The transformations that have decimated protest movements—undone by digitization, atomization, and the evanescence of online life—have also affected shame and its ability to mediate social norms without the intervention of the state. We can type and post and record selfie videos about shame, but we


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