Someone is always watching
How compliance rules make us less ethical… and what to do about it Integrity is doing the right thing when you don’t have to — when no...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jul 23, 2018
- 3 min
No safety in numbers
If you follow the herd, you end up in the stockyard While nobody knows what’s going on around here, everybody knows what’s going on...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jul 5, 2018
- 4 min
The search for intelligent life
A new study offers more questions than answers – and that’s a good thing Have you heard the latest reports about the Fermi paradox? No?...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jul 2, 2018
- 3 min
The Man on the Street
Hungarians are not shy. At least during the year I spent teaching in their capital, Budapest, I never observed the slightest reticence...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jun 27, 2018
- 3 min
The Peril of Prejudice
How to be wrong, even when you’re right Inevitably, everyone is claiming the high ground after the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington,...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jun 25, 2018
- 3 min
Guest of a Son of Haman
It was the summer of 1984, and I was still immersed in my secular, prodigal youth, living out of a backpack as I wandered across Europe. ...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jun 20, 2018
- 3 min
Is our misunderstanding of success setting us up for failure?
How the wisdom of King Solomon leads us where no man has gone before Do you have a “boss from hell” story? If you’ve been in the...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jun 18, 2018
- 4 min
Are your kids ready? They’ll let you know.
On a summer afternoon many years ago, I stood in my front yard and watched my neighbor teaching his four-year-old son how to pedal a new...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jun 13, 2018
- 3 min
The never-ending battle for peace
A 3000-year-old antiquity offers timeless lessons for the modern world Near the northern border of Israel, the fortress city of Abel...
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Yonason Goldson
- May 28, 2018
- 4 min
Don't Forget to Remember
How much time did you spend on Presidents Day thinking about presidents? Did you give much thought to Dr. King's accomplishments on MLK...
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Yonason Goldson
- May 16, 2018
- 3 min
Half a Cheer for George Will
Don’t take the low road while demanding others take the high road Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Overnight, Pulitzer Prize winning...
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Yonason Goldson
- May 10, 2018
- 1 min
TEDx: Hitchhiking, Fundamentalism, and the Art of Ethical Communication
At long last, #TEDxStJohnsUniversity became reality. Many thanks to organizer #NeeleshRastogi and his team for making it happen. And my...
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Yonason Goldson
- May 9, 2018
- 3 min
Don’t look at me
Raising children to believe in anything teaches them to believe in nothing Imagine this scenario: A parochial high school offers an...
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Yonason Goldson
- May 3, 2018
- 1 min
Why Ethics Matter, Part 13
2 Minute Video: Why Dreams go up in Smoke Gunsmoke, the longest running scripted television show in history, has just been dethroned by...
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