Tragic Losses, of Life and Language, inWatch NightandTranslations
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Justice needs a witness, the scholar Paul Woodruff wrote. A body of witnesses makes possible a communal healing of wounds. These traditions of public judgment, he asserts, are the ancestors of tragic theater. then of attention: Here we are together, publicly acknowledging these wounds. That said, theres a lot packed intoWatch Night. Josh is headed to Charleston, after a fictionalized version of the shooting there, to get the scoop....