Do public leaders with moral critiques of their communities have an obligation to live moral lives themselves? The answer seems obvious to me now: yes! But in my younger days, I often found myself advocating for family values in public while violating those values in private. In this clip from my latest Substack subscriber-only Q&A session with John McWhorter, a reader asks how I handled this contradiction between my words and my deeds.
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I have finished listening to the Audiobook. I can't say that I enjoyed it. I'll leave it at that.
We're all hypocrites at one time or another. Every last one of us. The mark of a mature human is realizing it and learning from it, and making amends if necessary.