right and wrong
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What Baldwin is lamenting is our tendency to fall back on binaries — right and wrong, good and evil — rather than to struggle with complexity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
How can anyone live like this, so doubtful about what is right and wrong?
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Audiences expecting an easy villain and a clear case of right and wrong will be surprised as the narrative unfolds with an examination of community, complicity and corruption within institutions of power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
“The issue is whether at the time she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan, she knew the difference between right and wrong, and whether she could conform her behavior to the requirements of the law.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
He was both right and wrong about this.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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