Category: ethics
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Time For A Conversation
A good friend writes on Facebook: Now is not the time, but sometime soon, while the searing memories are still fresh, we must have a candid conversation about how we all will live in the new world climate change is bringing to us. After a disaster, there is a defiant urge to remake what was…
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Creating Values Skeptics: My Latest Column at Ethics Newsline
Students these days continually are bombarded with messages throughout school and extracurricular activities that remind them of what their “core values” ought to be. There are posters in the hallways with acronyms designed to generate pep and morals all at once. There are T-shirts, stickers, decals, pencils, and more — all boasting aspirational lists of…
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The University of Virginia and The New Transparency: My Latest Column At Ethics Newsline
The announcement was terse. “On behalf of the Board of Visitors, we are writing to tell you that the Board and President Teresa Sullivan today mutually agreed that she will step down as president of the University of Virginia effective August 15, 2012.” Later in the announcement, a statement from President Sullivan referred to “a…
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Only Divided Because We Think We Are: My Latest Column At Ethics Newsline
As some know, I have begun a monthly column published at Ethics Newsline, the flagship publication for the Institute for Global Ethics and one which I helped develop when I worked at that organization. This month’s column is about recent research that sheds light on just how divided we are — in public vs. in private life. Only…
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When The Curtain Parts: My Latest Column At Ethics Newsline
I have begun a monthly column published at Ethics Newsline, the flagship publication for the Institute for Global Ethics and one which I helped develop when I worked at that organization. This month’s column is about the lessons to be drawn for leaders from the Secret Service and DEA scandals.
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Writing For The Institute For Global Ethics
Friends and colleagues know that, for a number of years, I lived in Camden, Maine and led a large election-ethics initiative for the Institute for Global Ethics. Going to IGE was a decisive moment in my career, which up to that point had consisted primarily of work in government and politics (and some lobbying) in…
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An Ethics Scenario: 'The Dorchester Paper'
I am speaking to a high school group later today about ethical dilemmas. I prepared this scenario to illustrate the four types of right-vs.-right ethical dilemma paradigms: The Dorchester School was a private boarding school in Fairbrook, Delaware that accepted students from sixth grade through senior year in high school. Founded by a husband-and-wife team…
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On The Lam, An Ethics Scenario
Tomorrow I will be leading a session on ethics at the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. I typically present a scenario with multifaceted ethical dilemmas embedded, and talk through it. For tomorrow’s talk I have written a new scenario and I thought I would share it here. How many ethical dilemmas can you spot? Who…
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