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Can you remain Ethical, when a devious competitor steals your business? Can you stay Civil, when a cursing driver cuts you off the road? Blame the speed, intensity, and ferocity of modern society. Do you feel the competition of contemporary life? It’s all around you all your life. From struggling at school for grades and college admissions to jousting at work for promotions and money, you can’t escape the fever of competition. How, in such a pressure-cooker environment, can we expect high moral values and courteous, polite behavior to survive? Yet, society is much impoverished without ethics and civility. What can be done? 

Participants: Chapman, Hubbard, Jayaraman, Mouw, McWhorter

 

	Bruce Chapman is founder and president of Discovery Institute, a public policy think tank in Seattle. From 1981-1983, he was Director of the United States Census Bureau in Washington, D.C. Later, he served as Deputy Assistant to President Reagan, from which position he directed the White House Office of Planning and Evaluation. In 1985, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Organizations in Vienna, Austria, serving until 1988. He received the State Department's Superior Honor Award at the end of his service.
	Barbara Marx Hubbard is a world-renowned futurist, citizen diplomat, social architect, and global politician. She is founder of the Center for Conscious Evolution and a founding board member of The World Future Society. She is the author of The Revelation: A Message of Hope for the New Millennium and Conscious Evolution.
	Saru Jayaraman is the national founder of WYSE: Women and Youth Supporting Each Other and is quoted frequently in the media on matters of women and other social issues. While an undergraduate at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), she was recognized as one of the top three students in the entire nation. She is now at Yale Law School.
	Richard Mouw is president of Fuller Theological Seminary where he is also professor of Christian philosophy and ethics. He is the author of ten books, including The God Who Commands, Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil World, and Consulting the Faithful.
	John McWhorter is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley where he also held an appointment in the Department of African-American Studies. Specializing in Creole languages and sociolinguistics, he has written and spoken widely about the Ebonics controversy, the use of Black English in education, and affirmative action.
	Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator and host of the Closer To Truth television series and author of the Closer To Truth book. Trained in brain research (Ph.D. UCLA), he has published more than twenty books, including the Handbook for Creative and Innovative Managers and the seven-volume Library of Investment Banking. He is the president of The Geneva Companies, a leading merger and acquisition firm for private, middle market businesses.
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