In response to the Jonah Goldberg opinion piece “Cultural-appropriation outrage shows people are desperate to be offended,” I agree, and I wonder — why? Having hurt feelings or being offended is a ...

Lots of people these days claim to be offended or even "traumatized" by lots of things. The hunch is that the vast majority are lying about it. And lots of the people who claim to believe those lies ...

I credit the author Lou Marinoff (1999) with the important idea that our being offended by others is not the same as being harmed by them. So often, when we are insulted, disrespected, ignored, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Ricky Gervais obviously still has many loyal fans, others have pointed out he’s basically transformed into David Brent, the ...

MINOT, N.D. — "People like to be offended. It's one of the ignoble pleasures." Those are the words of Henry Miller. Or, at least, a fictionalized iteration of Miller as portrayed on the series "The ...

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Gov. Kristi Noem told an audience of more than 500 in Aberdeen on Tuesday morning that the world is "addicted to being offended." The Mayor's Prayer Breakfast was held at the Dakota Event Center. Noem ...

Slavery was as real as the lash. Women had no voice in government for more than a century of U.S. history. "Whites Only" and "Colored Only" signs were tangible objects whose existence-and ...

It seems everybody is offended by something now, and the list of offensive people, places and things just gets longer every day. The nation’s flag is offensive. The national anthem. The Declaration of ...

I credit the author Lou Marinoff (1999) with the important idea that our being offended by others is not the same as being harmed by them. So often, when we are insulted, disrespected, ignored, or ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Gov. Kristi Noem told an audience of more than 500 in Aberdeen on Tuesday the world is "addicted to being offended." The Mayor's Prayer Breakfast was held at the Dakota Event ...