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The lost sense of honor

JAMES BOWMAN

HONOR, though it has been in bad shape for most of the last century, has never really gone away. What has more or less vanished out of our culture is much of the language of honor and shame that was familiar to our parents and grandparents, and this is a matter of profound cultural significance.

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