August 11, 2000. The Connection with Christopher Lydon. August 11, 2000. Join our forum online.
Confession is good for the soul.
You could even say it's become our national pastime. Memoirs crowd the best seller list, all manner of revelation is told to Jenny Jones on national TV, or to Dr. Laura Schlesinger on national radio. We confess to our priests, our psychiatrists, our chat rooms, our lovers, our spouses. We watched President Clinton confess to what, by the end, everyone already knew. Yet at the same time we want confessions, we're also suspicious of them.