Can We Escape the Diabolical Clichés of Coldplay?
In recent years, the writer George Saunders has made the championing of so-called soft virtues—tenderness, forgiveness, patience—something of a personal crusade. “What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness,” Saunders said, in a graduation speech to the class of 2013 at Syracuse University. Implicit in that: some unimpeachable advice.