I went to a discussion this week at the think-tank Demos on developing character in young people, called How To Be Good. I admire Demos for its willingness to talk about ‘the Good Life’ and ‘good character’, in an era of moral relativism when we’ve grown uncomfortable with such terms, and, as the historian Darrin Read more…
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