Ethics, often dismissed as a prissy Sunday School word, is now at the center of a new national debate. Put bluntly, has the mindless materialism of the '80s left in its wake a values vacuum?
Time, May 25, 1987
In recent months the United States has once again been struggling with its national conscience. Wall Street crimes, foreign policy mismanagement, political and religious scandals. Lately, it seems, in the very institutions society looks to for setting standards of decency and moral leadership, too often there have been prominent individuals who don't appear to know what those standards should be. Or who don't care.
