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Steven Mintz

United States

I'm a speaker and consultant on ethics issues and author of a book, Beyond Happiness and Meaning: Transforming Your Life Through Ethical Behavior.

Interests: Reading, writing, blogging, ethics advice, traveling, eating, sports

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Harvard’s Most Popular Course is a Class on How to be Happier

Can Happiness Be Taught? Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar has taught Harvard University’s most popular course: a course on Positive Psychology; that is, he taught his students how to be happy. The course, called PSY 1504 – Positive Psychology,is described as follows: “The course focuses on the psychological aspects of a fulfilling... Continue reading

Posted 2 days ago at Higher Ed Ethics Watch

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Free Market Capitalism at Work and the Cancel Culture

Examples of Organizations and CEOs Canceled for Their Words and Actions I have previously blogged about a variety of issues related to the cancel culture including its characteristics, harms and benefits, relationship to being woke and other topics. In today’s blog I examine how the cancel culture has affected the... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at Workplace Ethics Advice

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The Time is Right to Rethink the Value of the Cancel Culture

The Cancel Culture: Did Obama Get It Right? Several weeks ago, former President Barack Obama was interviewed about youth activism at the Obama Foundation summit. He took on the woke culture that is spreading among the younger generations by saying: “This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and your... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at Ethics Sage

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Cancel Culture at Work in Randolph, N.J. School Board Decision to Delete Holidays from the Calendar

Being “Woke” is Used as an Excuse to Stifle the Free Speech of Others The Randolph, New Jersey Board of Education vote to remove the names of all holidays from the school calendar and replace them with “Day Off” illustrates how far down the black hole the cancel culture has... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at Ethics Sage

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Covid-19 Shot Can Be a Requirement to Reenter the Workplace

Considerations in Mandating Covid-19 Vaccination Can an employer mandate a Covid-19 vaccination of employees to return to work? There is no federal law specifically addressing that issue. The matter remains up to private businesses, state, or other local laws. The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. employers could require all... Continue reading

Posted Jun 10, 2021 at Workplace Ethics Advice

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Views of Americans About the “Cancel Culture”

PARTICIPATE IN CANCEL CULTURE SURVEY Please note that I am conducting a survey on the cancel culture and request you participate by opening this URL. Your responses are anonymous and will enable us to better understand the meaning of the cancel culture, forms of cancelling, and what can be done... Continue reading

Posted Jun 8, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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Paradigm Shift in Ethics Education

Giving Voice to Values The benefits of the Giving Voice to Values approach to ethical decision making is it involves students directly by providing them with the tools to speak out against improper behavior. Rather than a focus on ethical analysis in a sterile way, the GVV curriculum focuses on... Continue reading

Posted Jun 3, 2021 at Higher Ed Ethics Watch

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Pew Research Center Survey of How Americans View...

Pew Research Center Survey of How Americans View the Cancel Culture Does it Violate Free Speech? According to a Pew Research Center Survey of How Americans View the Cancel Culture, 44 percent of U.S. adults have heard at least a fair amount about “cancel culture”. They were also asked what... Continue reading

Posted Jun 2, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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Should Former President Trump be Canceled?

How Should We Hold Him Accountable? Yesterday I blogged about Former President Donald Trump's inciteful comments that stoked the fires of dissent and led to the January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill. Many people claim that former President Donald Trump should be canceled because of his words and actions. Facebook... Continue reading

Posted Jun 1, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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Political Correctness is the Forerunner of the Cancel Culture

Being Accountable for Your Words and Actions Lots of people ask me how the idea of a cancel culture come about it. I answer that it is a offshoot of “political correctness.” Political correctness (PC) refers to language that avoids offending persons of various genders, races, sexual orientations, cultures, or... Continue reading

Posted May 26, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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The Cancel Culture in the Workplace: Part II

Freedom of Expression Last week I blogged about the cancel culture in the workplace and how corporations and their employers should react when a group of workers wants to cancel an employee(ees). This week I drill down on the idea that the cancel culture portends conflicts ahead for employers that... Continue reading

Posted May 25, 2021 at Workplace Ethics Advice

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Cancel Culture: An Ethical Analysis

Evaluating the Rightness and Wrongness of the Cancel Culture I recently blogged about the various ways of examining the cancel culture and its effects on society from calling someone out for their words and actions, to boycotting them and shunning them from society and everything in between. In today’s blog... Continue reading

Posted May 25, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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Cancel Culture: A Variety of Perspectives

Cancel Culture: What it is Intolerance in society is being fueled by the cancel culture. The cancel culture is mainly an internet phenomenon where those offended by the comments of another party become denounced online by those who object to the behavior. It is one form of a cultural boycott... Continue reading

Posted May 24, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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Cancel Culture in Higher Education

Academic Freedom Under Attack When we think of the cancel culture what comes to mind right away is how social media is used to call someone out for their words or actions as offensive to a group. Those offended go on social media and start a firestorm of criticism against... Continue reading

Posted May 20, 2021 at Higher Ed Ethics Watch

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What is Virtue Signaling and Why Should You Care About It?

Understanding Political Correctness, Group Think, and the Cancel Culture Few terms have been more confusing to me than “virtue signaling.” First, is it spelled with two “ls” or one? It seems the Brits use two l’s and the U.S. one. Nevertheless, the meaning of the word is what is most... Continue reading

Posted May 18, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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Famous People Victims of the Cancel Culture

Summing Up the Cancel Culture and Political Correctness When we think of the cancel culture what comes to mind right away is how social media is used to call someone out for their words or actions as offensive to a group. Those offended go on social media and start a... Continue reading

Posted May 13, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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What is Critical Race Theory

Is America a Racist Country? Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans. Critical race theorists believe that political liberalism was incapable of adequately addressing... Continue reading

Posted May 12, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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Cancel Culture Can Be Toxic to Your Mental Health

Bullying and the Cancel Culture Last week I blogged about the history of the cancel culture, how social media plays a role, the cancel culture and workplace ethics, and how the cancel culture teams together with the woke culture to shame certain people for their words or actions. In today’s... Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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Are you ‘WOKE?’

Cultural Shift in America Are you woke? No, I do not mean just awaken from a deep sleep. In today’s parlance I mean awoken to sensitive social issues, such as racism. The term ‘woke’ is at the center of many of the contentious political, social, and cultural debates right now.... Continue reading

Posted May 10, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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Cancel Culture and Social Media

Denying Free Speech or an Expression of Capitalism? Yesterday I looked at the history of the cancel culture. In today's blog I examine how social media impacts the cancel culture. Social media posts reflect the historical movement from offline to online cancel culture including bullying behavior. When we think of... Continue reading

Posted May 6, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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The Cancel Culture: Learning from History

Should Schools Change the Names of Their Buildings to Placate the Cancel Culture My blog last Monday addressed the benefits and harms of the cancel culture that seeks to embarrass a person or group for their offensive comments or actions. Today, I look out when it is (or should be)... Continue reading

Posted May 5, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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The Cancel Culture in the Workplace

The Thought Police in the Workplace According to Dictionary.com, “Cancel culture is the popular practice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures or companies after doing something offensive or deemed to be so by one group or another. When someone has been “canceled,” it means they cease to exist to... Continue reading

Posted May 4, 2021 at Workplace Ethics Advice

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Should Simon & Schuster Be Cancelled Over Mike Pence Book Deal?

The Dangers of the Cancel Culture This is the first of a series of blogs on the cancel culture. It is, arguably, the most important issue of the day with respect to free speech and an open exchange of ideas. The cancel culture seeks to call out individuals whose words... Continue reading

Posted May 3, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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There are Benefits to Giving Women Greater Access to the C-Suite

Characteristic Traits of Behavior Make Women More Moral Than Men I have previously blogged about women and the glass ceiling and how they have been lagging in C-Suite positions. Along comes a research study from the Harvard Business Review that seems to show an increase in gender diversity but raises... Continue reading

Posted Apr 28, 2021 at Workplace Ethics Advice

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Is Lobbying Against Voter ID laws an Example of CSR?

Should Corporations Spend Their Money in This Way? Is this the way shareholders want their corporations to spend their invested dollars? Is it a socially responsible act to lobby against states, like Georgia, that pass so-called “restrictive” voter laws? Or is it a socially irresponsible act taken by CEOs who... Continue reading

Posted Apr 26, 2021 at Ethics Sage

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