David “Mas” Masumoto operates an 80-acre peach, nectarine and grape farm near Fresno. He has written several books about life on a farm and his organic farming techniques are used at farms across the country. Before participating on a panel about the importance of trees in life and art, he took questions in our Green Room…
Perjury, journalist James B. Stewart likes to remind people, used to be punishable by having one’s tongue cut out or hanging by one’s ears in the pillory.
These days, perjury in the United States is punishable by, at most, five years in prison. And perhaps unsurprisingly, the number of people willing to lie under oath has increased dramatically…
The number of prominent people who lie under oath has reached epic proportions, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James B. Stewart. And those lies, he says, hurt not only the court cases in question, but the entire court system and America’s moral fabric. In advance of Stewart’s visit to Zócalo on May 23 to examine whether lies are ruining America, we asked experts whether the country is undergoing an ethical crisis…
by Patrick Atwater
In the rhetorical crescendo of his inaugural, if not his governorship thus far, Jerry Brown claimed that “We can overcome the sharp divisions that leave our politics in perpetual gridlock, but only if we reach into our hearts and find that loyalty, that devotion to California above and beyond our narrow perspectives.” …
Telling the truth under oath is “a breathtakingly simple proposition on which the entire American legal system rests,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James B. Stewart writes in his new book Tangled Webs: How False Statements Are Undermining America. Yet perjury is becoming more common, particularly among white-collar criminals. Stewart visits Zócalo on May 23 to discuss the grave threat perjury poses to the nation, and what we should do about it…
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