Hypocrisy means contradicting ourselves, being inconsistent, and talking out of both sides of our mouths. But that’s also what irony means. What then distinguishes hypocrisy from irony? A hypocrite ...

Depends on whom you ask. Most of us sometimes fail to practice what we preach. That’s a solid definition of hypocrisy, psychologists say. Yet while we’re quick to spot this moral inconsistency in ...