James Stewart: Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America (5/24/11)

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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.


This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on May 24, 2011