Lesson 4 was on the ethics of journalism.
When does investigative journalism serve the public good? Did we really need to know all the intimate details of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair? Why was Clinton’s affair so sensationalized by the media, but John F. Kennedy’s affair received far less media scrutiny?
Isn’t the role of journalism to serve the [...]

The topic of discussion for Lesson 3 was business ethics.
I was expecting to hear a lot of grand, wise theories– especially from the senior citizens in the class–about how we ought to prevent turmoil in the financial markets and improve the working conditions in sweatshops and reduce the culture of greed in our society.
So I [...]

Be careful about the words you use, whether it’s in speech or in writing. In the words of Frank Luntz, author of “Words That Work,” it’s not what you say, it’s what people hear that matters.
That’s what I learned from Lesson 2 of this Intergenerational Ethics class that I’m teaching. During Lesson 2, we discussed the [...]