James Stewart (5/24/11)

James Stewart: Tangled Webs: How False Statements Are Undermining America

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist; Former Wall Street Journal Page One Editor; Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Author, Den of Thieves

In conversation with Kirk Hanson, Executive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, University of Santa Clara

Business journalist Stewart says that a "perjury outbreak" is symptomatic of a broader breakdown of ethics in American life. It isn't just the judicial system that relies on an honor code: Academia, business, medicine and government all do. He explores the age-old tensions between greed and justice, self-interest and public interest. Stewart seeks to reaffirm the importance of truth.

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News & Politics

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• commonwealth club
• james stewart
• ethics
• lying
• perjury
• business

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This is also an indictment of our failed public education. At what time in a child's education does he/she learn virtues and ethics. Thus we spend massive amounts of hour country's wealth supporting a system that continues to produce too many unethical citizens. As the public schools decline into total collapse this country needs alternatives that will put virtues into the core of its cultural instructions.