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Sorry Not Sorry
A 2023 Column Contest Winner
Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture.
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September 9, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: BTS, Ronda Rousey, and the Timing of Apologies
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August 5, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: CrowdStrike’s $10 Empathy Failure
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June 27, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Why Boeing Being Serially Sorry Doesn’t Fly
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June 3, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: The Pope’s Contradictory Apology
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May 13, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Why Did Two Grandmasters Apologize to Each Other?
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April 25, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Mike Tyson, Marijuana Morsels, and the Difference Between Justice and Forgiveness
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April 10, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Stephen Colbert Found His Own Line with Kate Middleton
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March 25, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Why Apologies Aren’t Miracles
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March 11, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Three Comedians, Three “Apologies”
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February 16, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: How Bill Clinton Turbocharged the Apology Treadmill
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February 2, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: Why Donald Trump Never Apologizes
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January 18, 2024Sorry Not Sorry: A Eulogy for the Notes App Apology
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