Category Archives: Considering Professional Ethics
On Lying
2025 Dinner and Awards for Ethical Leadership Remarks
2025 Dinner and Awards for Ethical Leadership Remarks
By David Goldman I have something I want to talk about tonight. I want…
Our Words Matter; the Mendacity of Euphemisms
Mendacity
On Complicity and the Mirror
On Complicity and the Mirror
By FASPE Chair David Goldman Complicity: per one definition, “association or participation…in a wrongful…
Ethical Journalism vs. Complicity
Ethical Journalism vs. Complicity
By FASPE Chair David Goldman The Trump Administration announced that reporters from the Wall…
Bystanding and Normalizing: Two Sides of Complicity
Bystanding and Normalizing: Two Sides of Complicity
By FASPE Chair David Goldman There is an entire cottage industry philosophizing about whether…
Flooding the Zone and Ethical Stress
Flooding the Zone and Ethical Stress
By FASPE Chair David Goldman We are inundated with attacks on universities, access to…
Considering Professional Ethics: April 2025
Filling Ethical Gaps By FASPE Chair David Goldman I have written previously about the…
Considering Professional Ethics: February 2025
The Dangerous Devaluation of the Civil Service Profession By David Goldman, FASPE Chair We…
Filling Ethical Gaps
Historical Attacks on the Rule of Law Didn’t End Well
By FASPE Chair David Goldman I fear making analogies to 1933 Germany—analogies to Nazism…