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Ask The Ethicist

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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? 

Ethics
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Finding solutions to the ethical dilemmas of everyday life are the work of New York Times ethicist, 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.

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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.