In the spring of 1994, the top executives of the seven largest tobacco companies testified under oath before Congress that nicotine is not addictive. Nearly 30 years later, Americans remember their laughable claims, their callous indifference, their lawyerly inability to speak plainly, and the general sense that they did not regard themselves as part of a shared American community.
The three university presidents, however-with their moral confusion on naked display-were likely not lying; instead, we saw a refusal to acknowledge shared values, a failure to see themselves as part of a collective.
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