Sorry to overwhelm you, but there are lots of different types of apologies. Some are heartfelt; others are inflammatory. Some are just meaningless uses of the word “sorry”—a language habit we should ...

When you think of an apology, the phrase "I'm sorry" immediately comes to mind. From a very early age, we're taught to apologize by saying "I'm sorry" (even when we're not). "Apologies are ...

In our culture of performance and simulation, have apologies become anachronistic, mere formulaic gestures? Sometimes, it appears so. In our public life, all we often get are caricatures. “Rectitude, ...