Eliot Spitzer Invited To Lecture At Harvard On…Ethics?
That’s right. The Governor who cheated on his wife while in office with high-priced call girls is going to be lecturing the young minds at Harvard about ethics.
Harvard University is casting aside Eliot Spitzer’s moral lapses and has invited the scandal-scarred former governor to do a star turn as a speaker today—for the school’s highly esteemed ethics center.
“Client No. 9” will be lecturing as part of a series of talks which aim to “promote philosophical reflection on some of the most challenging ethical issues in public life,” according to the Web site for the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
Spitzer’s talk will focus on Uncle Sam’s role on Wall Street. ...
“It’s unbelievably hypocritical,” fumed one Harvard Business school alum yesterday at the Harvard Club of New York. “He should find the deepest hole in Manhattan and crawl back into it. Unfortunately, there’s no sense of shame anymore. Shame died with the Clinton era.”
The foundation’s director, Lawrence Lessig, said he asked Spitzer to be part of the series of lectures addressing “institutional corruption” because of his unique perspective.
“We chose him because his experiences and perspective would be valuable to the study we’re conducting,” said Lessig.
Next up: Michael Moore lecturing on how to maintain a healthy diet.
