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Apology and Forgiveness
“Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.” – John McCarthy, British Journalist During the course of a recent talk on ethics I spoke about the need to forgive; to forgive those who have not only hurt our feelings but even those who have stolen or cheated.  During the Q&A, someone asked if that forgiveness should extend to the corporate CEOs at...
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January 6, 2012
  • Accountability
  • Respect
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Supreme Impartiality
A few years ago, I was called for jury duty. After being selected as a finalist, the judge explained that the case we would be deciding had to do with spousal abuse. He asked if we, as potential jurors, had anything in our personal lives that might cause us not to be impartial in this case, to speak up. I...
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January 4, 2012
  • Fairness
  • Government
  • Justice
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Wishes for a New Year
May we embrace peace with justice.  May we speak for it and stand for it.  May we make our voices heard and our presence felt. May we awaken to the possibilities of our greatness if we stop wasting our resources on war and its preparation. May we end all war in the new year.  Wars always end.  May we end...
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January 2, 2012
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Integrity Doesn’t Require a Megaphone
Republican John Williams, a chicken farmer and feed dealer from southern Delaware, had never gone to college.  He spoke so quietly on the Senate floor...
  • Character
  • Democracy
  • Government
  • Leadership
  • Politics
  • Principle
WHOSE PURPOSE DOES THIS SERVE?
“He’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of murdering...
  • Compassion
  • Conscience
Choreographer of Disaster
Nowhere is there a greater metaphor for Donald Trump’s policies, priorities, and unfulfilled ego than the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington’s cultural cathedral...
  • Accountability
  • Whistleblowers
I Am Not a Politician, and I Have No Partisan Loyalties
This is the opening statement delivered by Jack Smith, former Special Counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice, before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September...
  • Accountability
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  • Courage
  • Democracy
  • Justice
A Man of Incorruptible Integrity
Whom can we trust? Who has the credibility to lead? Integrity still matters, and there are examples worth remembering. In The Buying of Congress, Charles...
  • Courage
  • Integrity
HUMAN VALUES: NOT SPECIFIED
“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”—Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s Alignment Science Lead,...
  • A.I.
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