Acclaimed novelist, essayist, and poet Margaret Atwood was awarded the 2022 Hitchens Prize. Her full remarks from the Prize ceremony can be read on The Atlantic’s website.
Having feelings was not a thing back then. We would not have admitted to owning such marshmallow-like appendages, and if we did have any feelings, we’d have considered them irrelevant as arguments. Feelings are real—people do have them, I have observed—and they can certainly be plausible explanations for all kinds of behavior. But they are not excuses or justifications. If they were, men who murder their wives because they’re feeling cranky that day would never get convicted. Read her remarks HERE.
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