All Pieces for Susan J. Cook
I read a column in which the author tried to express what I’m guessing is her moral outrage. I am all for expressing moral outrage. At least it pu...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 05:38
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and what is wrong. Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks what is wrong with pol...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 01:19
The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Arizona’s 2000 law which created an Independent Commission to determine Congressional Re-d...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 07:04
I heard Jill Abramson , the former executive editor of the New York Times say recently that since the George W. Bush administration, there have be...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 04:51
In many parts of the world, torture, harassment and persecution are used to target individuals who criticize , believe, have secrets or religion...
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Well, we have an enigmatic scandal brewing in my state. Twenty-one ballots- all for a state Senate Republican candidate surfaced inside a sealed ba...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 05:22
There is a demand in this country that corporations acknowledge that they are not people. Until corporations wake up one morning, and say, “I‘m r...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 03:50
The ethical challenge for Facebook has been to re-create the ethics of community where there are real consequences for using information in a destr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:49
Political amnesia comes on when political polarization begins as it has with President Obama’s recent executive order about immigration. So, Presi...
- Added: Nov 23, 2014
- Length: 04:30
With the election season over, the next phase of elected politics has settled on our plates like a bowl of jello. How can you tell when the age-old...
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 01:04
In politics, arrogance can be hired, purchased or -in volunteer organizations- a gratuity that comes with volunteer labor.- or elected. In Maine ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 05:14
Sometimes, there is an ineffable quality to the offensiveness of negative campaign ads. We turn here to the sonnet to express deep concern about n...
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- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: :57
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In the 1950’s and 1960’s American citizens and the stalwart among them who were brave enough to run for political office had to learn to live with...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 06:04
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...
- Added: Oct 25, 2014
- Length: 04:45
When we see the tools of discrediting the truth happily taken on, now or in history- we might say this. The cost of the truth is, it turns out, th...
- Added: Oct 11, 2014
- Length: 11:09
The truth can be our moral antidote, our moral medicine, the vitamin that- yes, if someone is trying to tell us that nine dollars and something is ...
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 04:23
My now 86 year old brother , is still, and has been his whole life, a sailor. His boat “Significant Other”, a J-24 racing yacht will carry two. ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2014
- Length: 03:07
The cost of the truth is not tied to inflation. It’s tied to tolerance, inversely. The more tolerance that exists, the lower the price paid for the...
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 04:23
The public officials and the political candidates who shape public discourse through the impulsive and shallow convey far more about their ethics t...
- Added: Aug 23, 2014
- Length: 04:21
Legislative ethics exist to put the brakes on political gamesmanship- whether it’s trading votes to pass a bill, get a fat salaried new Federal job...
- Added: Aug 20, 2014
- Length: 10:07
