article_snippet: Shame stalks the land.
article_snippet: Two new books consider shame from different points of view.
article_snippet: IS SHAME NECESSARY? by Jennifer Jacquet .
article_snippet: For Jennifer Jacquet, shame is not so much a scourge as ‘a tool that we can put to use to help solve serious problems’.
article_snippet: Shame is ‘more salient to public life than ever before, since the power to use it has been wrested away from opinion leaders and the state and put increasingly in the hands of citizens’.