Ask The Ethicist

WUNC | By Laura Lee,

Published September 14, 2016 at 12:33 PM EDT

Host Frank Stasio talks with New York Times ethicist, Kwame Anthony Appiah.

What should you do if you know a friend is cheating on their spouse? Should you tell a friend who applied to your firm the real, but confidential, reason she did not get hired?

Finding solutions to the ethical dilemmas of everyday life are the work of New York Timesethicist, Kwame Anthony Appiah. Appiah is a professor of philosophy and law at NYU.

He speaks at The Kenan Theater at the Center for Dramatic Art at an event hosted by UNC's Parr Center for Ethics on September 15 at 5:30 pm.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Appiah and takes listener calls and questions.

Laura Lee

Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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