😔 Communal Guilt

Stories and studies of collective responsibility, where entire communities grapple with shared complicity in injustice, silence, or historical wrongdoing.

Accountable

by Dashka Slater • 2023

A racist Instagram account shatters a progressive high school, laying bare the cost of online hate.

4.23

6k+

⚖️ Restorative Justice 😳 Public Shaming 💻 Online Hate

Accountable 88%

A racist Instagram account shatters a progressive high school, laying bare the cost of online hate.

by Dashka Slater 2023

4.23

6k+ ratings

⚖️ Restorative Justice 😳 Public Shaming 💻 Online Hate

Blood Lines

by Vamık D. Volkan • 1997

Group identity can become a weapon: the psychological roots of ethnic terrorism.

4.20

🌎 Ethnic Conflict 💔 Collective Trauma 🧠 Group Psychology

Blood Lines 87%

Group identity can become a weapon: the psychological roots of ethnic terrorism.

by Vamık D. Volkan 1997

4.20

60 ratings

🌎 Ethnic Conflict 💔 Collective Trauma 🧠 Group Psychology

Déogratias

by Jean-Philippe Stassen • 2000

His Tutsi friends are dead, he helped kill them, and now only beer quiets their ghosts.

3.46

1k+

🖤 Rwandan Genocide 😔 Survivor Guilt 👻 Haunted By The Dead

Déogratias 87%

His Tutsi friends are dead, he helped kill them, and now only beer quiets their ghosts.

by Jean-Philippe Stassen 2000

3.46

1k+ ratings

🖤 Rwandan Genocide 😔 Survivor Guilt 👻 Haunted By The Dead

The World After Gaza

by Pankaj Mishra • 2025

The West did not remember the Holocaust to prevent genocide. It remembered to license it.

4.06

1k+

🧠 Memory Politics 🕯️ Holocaust Memory 🌍 Decolonization

The World After Gaza 87%

The West did not remember the Holocaust to prevent genocide. It remembered to license it.

by Pankaj Mishra 2025

4.06

1k+ ratings

🧠 Memory Politics 🕯️ Holocaust Memory 🌍 Decolonization

Sovereignty

by Ryan Michler • 2018

Christian ethics aims not to tell you what's good but to undo your need to ask.

4.25

1k+

🕊️ Christocentric Ethics 📖 Neo-Orthodox Theology ✝️ Theology Of The Cross

Sovereignty 87%

Christian ethics aims not to tell you what's good but to undo your need to ask.

by Ryan Michler 2018

4.25

1k+ ratings

🕊️ Christocentric Ethics 📖 Neo-Orthodox Theology ✝️ Theology Of The Cross

The Kindly Ones

by Jonathan Littell • 2009

An intellectual SS officer recounts his role in the Holocaust, insisting it was just a job.

4.03

15k+

🕯️ Holocaust 🗣️ Perpetrator Narrator 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

The Kindly Ones 86%

An intellectual SS officer recounts his role in the Holocaust, insisting it was just a job.

by Jonathan Littell 2009

4.03

15k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust 🗣️ Perpetrator Narrator 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

Eichmann in Jerusalem

by Hannah Arendt • 1963

The Holocaust needed no monsters: careerism and stock phrases were enough. Evil is deeply ordinary.

4.20

34k+

🏛️ Political Philosophy ⚖️ War Crimes Trials ⛓️ Totalitarianism

Eichmann in Jerusalem 86%

The Holocaust needed no monsters: careerism and stock phrases were enough. Evil is deeply ordinary.

by Hannah Arendt 1963

4.20

34k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy ⚖️ War Crimes Trials ⛓️ Totalitarianism

The Visit

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt • 1956

A billionaire offers her hometown a fortune for one thing: the life of her former lover.

3.67

39k+

🎭 Tragicomic Theater 🏘️ Small-Town Complicity 🕊️ Collective Guilt

The Visit 86%

A billionaire offers her hometown a fortune for one thing: the life of her former lover.

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1956

3.67

39k+ ratings

🎭 Tragicomic Theater 🏘️ Small-Town Complicity 🕊️ Collective Guilt

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

by Jon Ronson • 2015

180 years without public shaming ended when the internet made everyone a potential mob member.

3.93

66k+

🖥️ Digital Shaming 🚫 Cancel Culture 🕊️ Restorative Justice

So You've Been Publicly Shamed 86%

180 years without public shaming ended when the internet made everyone a potential mob member.

by Jon Ronson 2015

3.93

66k+ ratings

🖥️ Digital Shaming 🚫 Cancel Culture 🕊️ Restorative Justice

The Holocaust Industry

by Norman G. Finkelstein • 2000

After 1967, the Holocaust became a shield for Israel and an international shakedown.

4.13

4k+

🕯️ Holocaust Memory 🎭 Victimhood Politics 🇮🇱 Israel Lobby

The Holocaust Industry 86%

After 1967, the Holocaust became a shield for Israel and an international shakedown.

by Norman G. Finkelstein 2000

4.13

4k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Memory 🎭 Victimhood Politics 🇮🇱 Israel Lobby

The Nazi Doctors

by Robert Jay Lifton • 1986

Nazi doctors killed to heal the race. A psychologist reveals the mechanism that enabled it.

4.12

4k+

🕯️ Holocaust Studies 🧠 Perpetrator Psychology 📋 Medical Ethics

The Nazi Doctors 86%

Nazi doctors killed to heal the race. A psychologist reveals the mechanism that enabled it.

by Robert Jay Lifton 1986

4.12

4k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Studies 🧠 Perpetrator Psychology 📋 Medical Ethics

Blind Injustice

by Mark Godsey • 2017

How good people convict the innocent: a former prosecutor on the cognitive traps built in justice.

4.39

345

⚖️ Wrongful Convictions 🏛️ Criminal Justice Reform 👁️ Eyewitness Misidentification

Blind Injustice 86%

How good people convict the innocent: a former prosecutor on the cognitive traps built in justice.

by Mark Godsey 2017

4.39

345 ratings

⚖️ Wrongful Convictions 🏛️ Criminal Justice Reform 👁️ Eyewitness Misidentification

Comandante ad Auschwitz

by Rudolf Höss • 1951

His kids played happily feet from the gas chambers. The Auschwitz commandant's own words.

3.85

4k+

🕯️ Holocaust Perpetrators 🌍 Genocide Studies 🏠 Banality Of Evil

Comandante ad Auschwitz 86%

His kids played happily feet from the gas chambers. The Auschwitz commandant's own words.

by Rudolf Höss 1951

3.85

4k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Perpetrators 🌍 Genocide Studies 🏠 Banality Of Evil

Not in God's Name

by Jonathan Sacks • 2015

Why Abraham's sons kill: a family feud, not theology, and the Bible contains the peace terms.

4.36

1k+

💥 Religious Violence 👬 Sibling Rivalry 📜 Scriptural Interpretation

Not in God's Name 86%

Why Abraham's sons kill: a family feud, not theology, and the Bible contains the peace terms.

by Jonathan Sacks 2015

4.36

1k+ ratings

💥 Religious Violence 👬 Sibling Rivalry 📜 Scriptural Interpretation

The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt

by Peter Gratton • 2020

Why totalitarianism aims to make humans unnecessary, and the public acts that can stop it.

🏛️ Political Theory 🏴 Totalitarianism 📚 Continental Philosophy

The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt Summary

The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt 86%

Why totalitarianism aims to make humans unnecessary, and the public acts that can stop it.

by Peter Gratton 2020

🏛️ Political Theory 🏴 Totalitarianism 📚 Continental Philosophy

The Dignity of Difference

by Jonathan Sacks • 2002

Universalism and tribalism are twin threats. Peace is built on particularity, not sameness.

4.28

577

🕊️ Religious Pluralism 🌍 Global Ethics ⛪ Political Theology

The Dignity of Difference 86%

Universalism and tribalism are twin threats. Peace is built on particularity, not sameness.

by Jonathan Sacks 2002

4.28

577 ratings

🕊️ Religious Pluralism 🌍 Global Ethics ⛪ Political Theology

Hundert Tage

by Lukas Bärfuss • 2008

A Swiss development worker stays in Rwanda as genocide begins, and his moral certainty shatters.

3.70

864

🏛️ Postcolonial Fiction 🌍 Aid Worker Abroad 🪞 Western Guilt

Hundert Tage 86%

A Swiss development worker stays in Rwanda as genocide begins, and his moral certainty shatters.

by Lukas Bärfuss 2008

3.70

864 ratings

🏛️ Postcolonial Fiction 🌍 Aid Worker Abroad 🪞 Western Guilt

Learning from the Germans

by Susan Neiman • 2019

Germany spent decades facing Nazi crimes. Could that model work for American racism?

4.20

1k+

🧠 Collective Memory ⚖️ Transitional Justice 🤝 Racial Reconciliation

Learning from the Germans 86%

Germany spent decades facing Nazi crimes. Could that model work for American racism?

by Susan Neiman 2019

4.20

1k+ ratings

🧠 Collective Memory ⚖️ Transitional Justice 🤝 Racial Reconciliation

The Least of All Possible Evils

by Eyal Weizman • 2012

When humanitarian law calculates acceptable civilian deaths, it also makes them thinkable.

4.19

224

🩸 Aid And Complicity 🤷 Lesser Evil Logic 📊 Proportionality In War

The Least of All Possible Evils 86%

When humanitarian law calculates acceptable civilian deaths, it also makes them thinkable.

by Eyal Weizman 2012

4.19

224 ratings

🩸 Aid And Complicity 🤷 Lesser Evil Logic 📊 Proportionality In War

The German House

by Annette Hess • 2019

Translating Holocaust testimony at the Auschwitz trial, a woman finds her own family in the dock.

3.68

12k+

⚖️ Postwar Reckoning 🕯️ Hidden Nazi Past 🔗 Generational Guilt

The German House 86%

Translating Holocaust testimony at the Auschwitz trial, a woman finds her own family in the dock.

by Annette Hess 2019

3.68

12k+ ratings

⚖️ Postwar Reckoning 🕯️ Hidden Nazi Past 🔗 Generational Guilt

Morality

by Jonathan Sacks • 2019

Loneliness rivals smoking. Broken politics. Amoral markets. All from one trade: community for self.

4.34

2k+

🔗 Social Capital 🫂 Loneliness Epidemic 🧍 Individualism Critique

Morality 86%

Loneliness rivals smoking. Broken politics. Amoral markets. All from one trade: community for self.

by Jonathan Sacks 2019

4.34

2k+ ratings

🔗 Social Capital 🫂 Loneliness Epidemic 🧍 Individualism Critique

A Horse Walks into a Bar

by David Grossman • 2014

A comic's set becomes confession, witnessed by a boyhood friend who once stood by and watched.

3.51

16k+

📖 Confessional Fiction 🕯️ Holocaust Legacy 😔 Childhood Guilt

A Horse Walks into a Bar 86%

A comic's set becomes confession, witnessed by a boyhood friend who once stood by and watched.

by David Grossman 2014

3.51

16k+ ratings

📖 Confessional Fiction 🕯️ Holocaust Legacy 😔 Childhood Guilt

Jewish Space Lasers

by Mike Rothschild • 2023

One Jewish banking family has been blamed for every global catastrophe for 200 years.

3.79

956

✡️ Antisemitism 🕵️ Conspiracy Culture 📜 Jewish History

Jewish Space Lasers 86%

One Jewish banking family has been blamed for every global catastrophe for 200 years.

by Mike Rothschild 2023

3.79

956 ratings

✡️ Antisemitism 🕵️ Conspiracy Culture 📜 Jewish History

The Dark Side of Democracy

by Michael Mann • 2004

Modernity's worst mass killings were not by tyrants alone, but by democracies that turned ethnic.

4.06

159

💀 Genocide Studies 🌍 Ethnic Conflict 🏳️ Nationalism

The Dark Side of Democracy 86%

Modernity's worst mass killings were not by tyrants alone, but by democracies that turned ethnic.

by Michael Mann 2004

4.06

159 ratings

💀 Genocide Studies 🌍 Ethnic Conflict 🏳️ Nationalism

Boy in the Box

by Marc E. Fitch • 2020

Four friends buried a boy in the Adirondacks. A decade later, the wilderness demands they return.

3.65

179

🏚️ Folk Horror 💀 Guilt And Atonement 🔪 Cover-Up Goes Wrong

Boy in the Box 86%

Four friends buried a boy in the Adirondacks. A decade later, the wilderness demands they return.

by Marc E. Fitch 2020

3.65

179 ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 💀 Guilt And Atonement 🔪 Cover-Up Goes Wrong

Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult • 2007

A bullied boy's school shooting forces his mother to face the everyday cruelty the town ignored.

4.18

426k+

🏫 School Shooting ⚖️ Legal Drama 😞 Survivor Guilt

Nineteen Minutes 86%

A bullied boy's school shooting forces his mother to face the everyday cruelty the town ignored.

by Jodi Picoult 2007

4.18

426k+ ratings

🏫 School Shooting ⚖️ Legal Drama 😞 Survivor Guilt

The Lucifer Effect

by Philip G. Zimbardo • 2007

Ordinary students, fake prison, abusive in six days. The situation, not character, corrupts.

3.90

27k+

🧠 Social Psychology ⚖️ Power And Corruption 😶 Dehumanization

The Lucifer Effect 86%

Ordinary students, fake prison, abusive in six days. The situation, not character, corrupts.

by Philip G. Zimbardo 2007

3.90

27k+ ratings

🧠 Social Psychology ⚖️ Power And Corruption 😶 Dehumanization

The Pledge

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt • 1957

To comfort a murdered girl's mother, a detective makes a promise that consumes him.

3.90

11k+

📚 Literary Crime Fiction 🔍 Obsessed Detective ⚖️ Mob Justice

The Pledge 86%

To comfort a murdered girl's mother, a detective makes a promise that consumes him.

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1957

3.90

11k+ ratings

📚 Literary Crime Fiction 🔍 Obsessed Detective ⚖️ Mob Justice

Nemesis

by Philip Roth • 2010

In 1944 Newark, a rejected soldier channels his duty into protecting children from a polio epidemic.

3.86

19k+

🎭 Literary Tragedy 🦠 Epidemic 🖤 Survivor'S Guilt

Nemesis 86%

In 1944 Newark, a rejected soldier channels his duty into protecting children from a polio epidemic.

by Philip Roth 2010

3.86

19k+ ratings

🎭 Literary Tragedy 🦠 Epidemic 🖤 Survivor'S Guilt

The Black Book of Communism

by Stéphane Courtois • 1997

Eighty-five to one hundred million dead, and the ideology that demanded every killing.

4.01

1k+

🏴 Totalitarianism ⚫ State Terror 🔨 Communist Regimes

The Black Book of Communism 86%

Eighty-five to one hundred million dead, and the ideology that demanded every killing.

by Stéphane Courtois 1997

4.01

1k+ ratings

🏴 Totalitarianism ⚫ State Terror 🔨 Communist Regimes

The Good Society

by Robert N. Bellah • 1991

Individualism gutted our institutions. Repair begins where the myth ends: we need each other.

3.66

105

🏘️ Communitarianism 🗳️ American Civic Life 🏛️ Democratic Theory

The Good Society 86%

Individualism gutted our institutions. Repair begins where the myth ends: we need each other.

by Robert N. Bellah 1991

3.66

105 ratings

🏘️ Communitarianism 🗳️ American Civic Life 🏛️ Democratic Theory

The Darker Side of Leadership

by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries • 2024

The psychological recipe that turns frightened populations into followers of dangerous leaders.

3.40

🗳️ Political Psychology 🧠 Mass Psychology 🐑 Herd Mentality

The Darker Side of Leadership 86%

The psychological recipe that turns frightened populations into followers of dangerous leaders.

by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries 2024

3.40

5 ratings

🗳️ Political Psychology 🧠 Mass Psychology 🐑 Herd Mentality

The Jailhouse Lawyer

by Calvin Duncan • 2025

He taught himself law from death row, freed other inmates, and walked free after 28 years.

4.49

1k+

🔓 Wrongful Conviction 🔗 Mass Incarceration ✍️ Prison Memoir

The Jailhouse Lawyer 86%

He taught himself law from death row, freed other inmates, and walked free after 28 years.

by Calvin Duncan 2025

4.49

1k+ ratings

🔓 Wrongful Conviction 🔗 Mass Incarceration ✍️ Prison Memoir

The Fall

by Albert Camus • 1956

In an Amsterdam bar, a disgraced Parisian lawyer confesses the story of his moral collapse.

4.03

138k+

📚 Existentialist Novel 🎙️ Confessional Monologue ✝️ Guilt And Confession

The Fall 86%

In an Amsterdam bar, a disgraced Parisian lawyer confesses the story of his moral collapse.

by Albert Camus 1956

4.03

138k+ ratings

📚 Existentialist Novel 🎙️ Confessional Monologue ✝️ Guilt And Confession

The Concept of Anxiety

by Søren Kierkegaard • 1844

Every sin begins with vertigo: the sudden awareness that you are free. That changes everything.

3.95

3k+

📜 Existentialism ✝️ Christian Existentialism 👤 Theological Anthropology

The Concept of Anxiety 86%

Every sin begins with vertigo: the sudden awareness that you are free. That changes everything.

by Søren Kierkegaard 1844

3.95

3k+ ratings

📜 Existentialism ✝️ Christian Existentialism 👤 Theological Anthropology

The Origins of Totalitarianism

by Hannah Arendt • 1951

Before the camps, tyranny. After, something wholly new: total domination.

4.30

15k+

🏛️ Totalitarianism 🧠 Political Theory 📚 Continental Philosophy

The Origins of Totalitarianism 86%

Before the camps, tyranny. After, something wholly new: total domination.

by Hannah Arendt 1951

4.30

15k+ ratings

🏛️ Totalitarianism 🧠 Political Theory 📚 Continental Philosophy

The Nazis

by Laurence Rees • 1997

The Third Reich was chaos masquerading as order, and its rise was never inevitable.

4.30

1k+

🏴 Nazi Germany 🕯️ The Holocaust 👁️ Eyewitness History

The Nazis 86%

The Third Reich was chaos masquerading as order, and its rise was never inevitable.

by Laurence Rees 1997

4.30

1k+ ratings

🏴 Nazi Germany 🕯️ The Holocaust 👁️ Eyewitness History

The Story of a Life

by Aharon Appelfeld • 1983

War silenced him. What grew in the silence, decades later, became a writer's whole art.

3.89

921

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🏛️ Cultural Memory

The Story of a Life 86%

War silenced him. What grew in the silence, decades later, became a writer's whole art.

by Aharon Appelfeld 1983

3.89

921 ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🏛️ Cultural Memory

Unusually Cruel

by Marc Morjé Howard • 2017

Ten times the prisoners of Europe, and not because of crime: four forces behind American punishment.

4.39

🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🛠️ Criminal Justice Reform 🧑🏿‍⚖️ Racial Bias In Justice

Unusually Cruel 86%

Ten times the prisoners of Europe, and not because of crime: four forces behind American punishment.

by Marc Morjé Howard 2017

4.39

41 ratings

🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🛠️ Criminal Justice Reform 🧑🏿‍⚖️ Racial Bias In Justice

White Too Long

by Robert P. Jones • 2020

White churches didn't just tolerate racism. Survey data reveals they constructed and sustained it.

4.42

3k+

⛪ Religion And Race 🇺🇸 American Christianity 📖 White Evangelicalism

White Too Long 86%

White churches didn't just tolerate racism. Survey data reveals they constructed and sustained it.

by Robert P. Jones 2020

4.42

3k+ ratings

⛪ Religion And Race 🇺🇸 American Christianity 📖 White Evangelicalism

Tribe

by Sebastian Junger • 2016

The paradox of belonging: why modern comfort leaves us empty, and shared hardship makes us whole.

4.02

50k+

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Tribal Societies 🏙️ Modern Alienation 🫂 Shared Suffering

Tribe 86%

The paradox of belonging: why modern comfort leaves us empty, and shared hardship makes us whole.

by Sebastian Junger 2016

4.02

50k+ ratings

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Tribal Societies 🏙️ Modern Alienation 🫂 Shared Suffering

Words That Hurt, Words That Heal

by Joseph Telushkin • 1996

Break the cycle of gossip, anger, and shaming with ancient wisdom on the power of speech.

4.36

568

🕎 Jewish Ethics 🗣️ Ethical Speech 💬 Compassionate Communication

Words That Hurt, Words That Heal Summary

Words That Hurt, Words That Heal 86%

Break the cycle of gossip, anger, and shaming with ancient wisdom on the power of speech.

by Joseph Telushkin 1996

4.36

568 ratings

🕎 Jewish Ethics 🗣️ Ethical Speech 💬 Compassionate Communication

The Living and the Lost

by Ellen Feldman • 2021

A Jewish emigre returns to Berlin to judge Nazis, haunted by the escape that saved her.

3.83

1k+

🏚️ Postwar Berlin 🪞 Survivor Guilt ⚖️ Denazification

The Living and the Lost 86%

A Jewish emigre returns to Berlin to judge Nazis, haunted by the escape that saved her.

by Ellen Feldman 2021

3.83

1k+ ratings

🏚️ Postwar Berlin 🪞 Survivor Guilt ⚖️ Denazification

Groupthink

by Christopher Booker • 2020

The psychological engine behind the Reign of Terror now powers modern politics and climate policy.

3.12

116

🧠 Mass Psychology 👥 Social Conformity 🫧 Collective Delusion

Groupthink 86%

The psychological engine behind the Reign of Terror now powers modern politics and climate policy.

by Christopher Booker 2020

3.12

116 ratings

🧠 Mass Psychology 👥 Social Conformity 🫧 Collective Delusion

Our Town

by Cynthia Carr • 2006

A Klansman grandfather. A souvenir lynching photo. An Indiana town that never spoke of it.

3.90

202

🏛️ Jim Crow America 📸 Spectacle Lynching 🤫 Historical Amnesia

Our Town 86%

A Klansman grandfather. A souvenir lynching photo. An Indiana town that never spoke of it.

by Cynthia Carr 2006

3.90

202 ratings

🏛️ Jim Crow America 📸 Spectacle Lynching 🤫 Historical Amnesia

Graven Images

by Dietrich von Hildebrand • 1957

Your conscience may be a counterfeit, shaped by pride, not goodness. A philosopher explains how.

4.17

🧠 Moral Philosophy ✝️ Catholic Moral Theology 🛡️ Honor Codes

Graven Images 86%

Your conscience may be a counterfeit, shaped by pride, not goodness. A philosopher explains how.

by Dietrich von Hildebrand 1957

4.17

12 ratings

🧠 Moral Philosophy ✝️ Catholic Moral Theology 🛡️ Honor Codes

Spirit Of Community

by Amitai Etzioni • 1993

The rights expansion forgot the duties. What it cost American communities, and how to rebuild.

3.50

🏘️ Communitarianism ⚖️ Rights And Duties 📚 Moral Education

Spirit Of Community 86%

The rights expansion forgot the duties. What it cost American communities, and how to rebuild.

by Amitai Etzioni 1993

3.50

80 ratings

🏘️ Communitarianism ⚖️ Rights And Duties 📚 Moral Education

A Death in Vienna

by Daniel Silva • 2004

An art-restoring ex-spy hunts a Nazi war criminal after a Vienna bombing nearly kills his friend.

4.25

32k+

🕵️ Nazi Hunting 📜 Historical Thriller 🕵️‍♂️ Reluctant Spy

A Death in Vienna 86%

An art-restoring ex-spy hunts a Nazi war criminal after a Vienna bombing nearly kills his friend.

by Daniel Silva 2004

4.25

32k+ ratings

🕵️ Nazi Hunting 📜 Historical Thriller 🕵️‍♂️ Reluctant Spy

The Art of Political Murder

by Francisco Goldman • 2007

Bishop Gerardi proved the Army's guilt. Two days later he was dead, his garrison floor mopped.

4.15

1k+

🇬🇹 Guatemalan Civil War 🎯 Political Assassination 📋 Truth Commissions

The Art of Political Murder 86%

Bishop Gerardi proved the Army's guilt. Two days later he was dead, his garrison floor mopped.

by Francisco Goldman 2007

4.15

1k+ ratings

🇬🇹 Guatemalan Civil War 🎯 Political Assassination 📋 Truth Commissions

The Joy of Pain

by Richard H. Smith • 2013

Joy at others' failures is not a character flaw. It is a feature of human nature.

3.45

268

⚖️ Social Comparison 🐍 Envy 😈 Schadenfreude

The Joy of Pain 86%

Joy at others' failures is not a character flaw. It is a feature of human nature.

by Richard H. Smith 2013

3.45

268 ratings

⚖️ Social Comparison 🐍 Envy 😈 Schadenfreude

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