The wise are unimpressed by hagiography. Idealising and idolising people and institutions, airbrushing every possible flaw, is unpersuasive. And the same is true of hamartography, which is the nearest I could find to an antonym for hagiography. Where the one can find no flaw, hamartography can find nothing else: it provides an account of a person or an institution as fatally flawed, totally in error, scarred by sin. I had heard it praised so highly that I expected to be put on my mettle, which is always…

Source: The Times May 24, 2019 23:06 UTC