Boyd Tonkin

Must we live in perpetual fear of being named and shamed?

Current wars, Brexit and Trumpism have sucked us into a vortex of outrage and disgrace, says David Keen – while advertisers make us feel guilty for being too fat or just poor

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  • Shame: The Politics and Power of an Emotion

    David Keen

    Princeton University Press, pp. 348, £30

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