Scandal (Again)

Ten years ago, I gave this lecture after Princeton University Press released  The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America.   For several years afterwards, I got [...]

As I promised in my last post, I watched the second half of Lance Armstrong’s interview. And no, he didn’t change my mind. What was he thinking? What were his handlers thinking? What [...]

My 2008 book The Art of the Public Grovel has been making a bit of a reappearance in the last couple of days. Check out “America’s Confessor is Back in the Spotlight” (Oprah, [...]

Thanks to the Washington Post for this shout-out: Susan Wise Bauer’s The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America (2008) should be required reading. (In fact, [...]

In case your appetite for scandal is still unsatisfied, let me suggest the following: Grovelling in Print: The Five Most Interesting Confessional Memoirs The Confessions, by Augustine (398) [...]

Some of my readers may remember that, as well as writing the history of the entire world, I wrote an academic study of public confession. The slightly unexpected result: every time a politician [...]