The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the fallibility of memory. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I am going to tell a brief story about my friend at his funeral. The incident happened 65 years ago. The problem ...
A reader is unsure how to proceed after a longtime family friend, one who has helped care for her aging father, chewed her out over the phone.
The author's grandmother wrote individual notes to her family to be read at her own funeral. It helped them all with closure.