The title is the question father asks himself when he learns his son has hand cuffed himself to the dean to protest censorship, and as a consequence been expelled. And when the son appears with a scroungy group of mods, beards and a girl from out of nowhere, the impact to a parent can be overwhelming. Father reasons that if you can't beat them, join them; and accordingly gets his own beads, guitar and such, and goes the kids one better. He burns his checkbook in front of the bank, and threatens to ignite himself on the steps of Lincoln Center. It's enough to make even the younger generation realize a thing or two.

It happens without warning, and it hits you with devastating force. Your closest girlfriend, the Ethel to your Lucy, the Thelma to your Louise, cuts you off completely. No more late-night phone calls, no more afternoon e-mails, no more catch-up lunches and dinners. She has decided for whatever reason to move on with her life and has left you to figure it out on your own. The experience can be as painful and confusing as a sudden breakup with a significant other, and you replay scenes from the friendship and wonder what you did wrong. Until now, women had to endure the heartache of losing a friend all alone, without the social support and understanding that accompanies, say, a romantic split-up -- and to make matters worse, they don't even have their best friend's shoulder to cry on. But What Did I Do Wrong? gives you that sympathetic shoulder and a resource -- and some answers -- that you can rely on. After author Liz Pryor had gone through a number of these breakups herself, she set out to discover why they were happening, how to help herself -- and others -- get through them...and how to prevent them from happening again. Through personal interviews and her popular website, www.lizpryor.com, Pryor collected hundreds of stories of friendships with which you will identify. Now she draws on those stories to explore the dynamics of friendship breakups in a candid, intimate way, revealing the patterns, the warning signs, and some ways to put a friendship right or help it change to meet your or your friend's changing life. She also explains how to end a friendship -- if you find that you need to do so -- in ways that honor both parties' feelings and your history together. Like the best kind of girlfriend -- one who really will stay friends forever -- Pryor blends plain, old-fashioned, feminine good sense and good humor with genuine empathy for the thousands of women who live with the confusion that lingers after an ended friendship -- for women of all ages, races, and backgrounds. What Did I Do Wrong? validates your feelings and inspires you to be more forthright and compassionate with new and old friends. It might even lead you to reconnect with a lost one. In the end, you will be moved and uplifted by the many stories of strong friendships, broken friendships, and renewed friendships that make this book a treasure of women's wisdom and experiences.

To err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher. In Being Wrong, journalist Kathryn Schulz explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken. Drawing on thinkers as varied as Augustine, Darwin, Freud, Gertrude Stein, Alan Greenspan, and Groucho Marx, she shows that error is both a given and a gift—one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and ourselves.

Common morality—in the form of shame, outrage, and stigma—has always been society’s first line of defense against ethical transgressions. Social mores crucially complement the law, Mark Osiel shows, sparing us from oppressive formal regulation. Much of what we could do, we shouldn’t—and we don’t. We have a free-speech right to be offensive, but we know we will face outrage in response. We may declare bankruptcy, but not without stigma. Moral norms constantly demand more of us than the law requires, sustaining promises we can legally break and preventing disrespectful behavior the law allows. Mark Osiel takes up this curious interplay between lenient law and restrictive morality, showing that law permits much wrongdoing because we assume that rights are paired with informal but enforceable duties. People will exercise their rights responsibly or else face social shaming. For the most part, this system has worked. Social order persists despite ample opportunity for reprehensible conduct, testifying to the decisive constraints common morality imposes on the way we exercise our legal prerogatives. The Right to Do Wrong collects vivid case studies and social scientific research to explore how resistance to the exercise of rights picks up where law leaves off and shapes the legal system in turn. Building on recent evidence that declining social trust leads to increasing reliance on law, Osiel contends that as social changes produce stronger assertions of individual rights, it becomes more difficult to depend on informal tempering of our unfettered freedoms. Social norms can be indefensible, Osiel recognizes. But the alternative—more repressive law—is often far worse. This empirically informed study leaves little doubt that robust forms of common morality persist and are essential to the vitality of liberal societies.

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This work focuses on the tragic murder of Patrick Lyoya, an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was shot and killed by a police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in April 2022. The case attracted national attention and drew reactions from around the world. It was also covered by international media outlets including BBC and Aljazeera. The author looks at the murder in the broader context of race relations and at relations between blacks and the police in Grand Rapids and across the country. He also addresses problems of re-adjustment to a new life in a new country African immigrants face in the United States. Patrick Lyoya faced those problems. He also explains, although only briefly, why the tragedy is inextricably linked with the fate of Lyoya's homeland in a geopolitical context where Western countries have played a critical role in determining the destiny of the country which has earned the unenviable distinction as “the bleeding heart of Africa.” He also briefly examines globalisation which he describes as “a new form of imperialism” in the post-Cold War era and how it is used to justify exploitation of Africa's natural resources including the Democratic Republic of Congo's vast amounts of minerals, and how industrialised nations have helped to impoverish the country and fuel conflict there, resulting in the death of millions of people and forcing countless others to flee and seek refuge in other countries including the United States. Patrick Lyoya and his family, and more than 8,000 other Congolese who settled in Grand Rapids, were some of them. Although the work briefly examines the ties the United States has had with the Democratic Republic of Congo since independence in the sixties when the country was known as Congo-Leopoldville, a relationship inextricably linked with the destiny of Congolese refugees who settled in Grand Rapids and other parts of the country, its main focus is on the murder of Patrick Lyoya, why he was killed, what contributed to his murder, and other factors about the tragedy. The uncertainty of the trial date for this case influenced publication of the book. Both sides, the defence and the prosecution, said they did not know when the trial would take place and implied it would be in 2023 and may be even in the last months of the year. They said in November 2022 that it would be many months before the case goes to court, a factor that played a major role in reaching the decision to have the book published before the trial. It complements the author's forthcoming work, “Shattered Dreams: Race and Justice.”

An evaluation of the dynamics of friendship breakups between women counsels them on how to understand the causes of broken friendships and offers recommendations on how to rekindle positive relations.