“The will to insist upon a definite, unimpeachable reading of an incident - which might well have been read in other, more generous ways - was a mark of a bewildering denial: a denial of the imagination that, liberated to do its proper work, can lead us in alternative directions.” KindnessJudgmentEmpathyDenialAmbiguityBenefit Of The DoubtCharitable Interpretation Book:The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies Source: The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies