In the last few years I’ve become dependent on audiobooks to the point that now I’m often listening to novels more than I’m reading them. According to the New York Times, audiobook sales were up 38% in 2015, and more and more people are binge listening. This year on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I binge-listened to the twenty-three hour Book Four of The Barchester novels by Anthony Trollope. [Read more…]
Archives for December 2015
Whom to Tell: Snowden
Edward Snowden first reported his ethical concerns to his superiors and colleagues over a period of six months. He even showed them evidence of alleged unconstitutional wrongdoing. And he deliberately chose not to blow the whistle to Congress because he viewed it as part of the problem. [Read more…]
The Whistleblower’s Dilemma: Snowden
With a growing awareness of NSA wrongdoing eating at him like moral acid, Edward Snowden became a whistleblower-in-waiting. All he needed was to complete his understanding of what the NSA was doing and how it was doing it. [Read more…]
Karen Silkwood, The Whistleblower’s DIlemma
One dry, cold November night in 1974, Karen Gay Silkwood left a union meeting at the Hub Café in rural Crescent, Oklahoma, jumped into her white Honda Civic, and headed down Highway 74 toward Oklahoma City. It was 7:30 p.m., the last day of her life. [Read more…]