Are We a Nation of Cheaters and Liars?
I was surprised to see two long stories in last Thursday's New York Times about the same subject: cheating.I was surprised to see two long stories in last Thursday’s New York Times about the same subject: cheating.
“Philadelphia Principals Fired in Cheating Scandal”“Nuclear Corps, Sidelined in Terror Fight, Produces a Culture of Cheating”What surprised me was that Philadelphia principals and 34 Air Force officers manning our nuclear missiles were caught. Cheating, phony resumes, lying are part of the American way.But I was pleasantly surprised to see another article, this one stating that the Times had hired Farhad Manjoo as its new technology columnist, taking over the column “State of the Art.”I am a fan of a book Manjoo wrote in 2008 titled “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society.”Ironically, I was just back from a “writer’s conversation” at Sunnylands, the Annenberg estate, now a kind of museum and conference center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. It’s where President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping met last June. Our conversation was off-the-record, but I don’t think I’m violating any code by saying that the subject of fact fabrication and truth denial came up again and again.© 2014 UNIVERSAL UCLICK
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