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Sorry Not Sorry

Michelle Cyca | Walrus | 28th February 2025 | U

The apology statement is ubiquitous after any mistake or tragedy. Individuals and institutions fire them out, eager to be seen to be saying the right thing while less keen to do anything concrete. "Forgiveness for mistakes should be possible in a just society, but it should follow from genuine remorse and reparations — not from outsourced platitudes wielded like a tranquiliser dart for outrage" (1,400 words)

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Flashback On The New Yorker's Birthday

Tina Brown | Fresh Hell | 24th February 2025 | U

Editor's victory lap. Tina Brown took over the New Yorker in 1992 with a remit from the publisher "to clean house and blood-change the reader demographic". She found a magazine that was "easier to praise than to read", still paying staff writers who hadn't filed a piece in over 30 years. She fired 71 people, "rewired the management as a matriarchy" and increased circulation by 22 per cent (2,900 words)

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