Ethics & Other Liabilities: Trying to Live Right in an Amoral World

by Harry Stein

For two years in the pages of Esquire magazine, with no more professional qualifications than a decent consience, Harry Stein examined the battle between right and wrong in the most intimate terms. Now collected in book form, Stein's provocative essays eloquently address many of the real, if unspoken, issues of everyday life, providing warm, personal insights that offer a rich reward beyond good and evil.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

168 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 1982

About the author

Conservative author Harry Stein is known for his light touch on hard topics: How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (And Found Inner Peace): I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican; The Idiot Vote -- The Democrats' Core Constituency; etc. Now, with his comic novel Will Tripp, Pissed Off Attorney-at-Law , he does his bit to take back popular culture from the radical left.

Harry Stein is a veteran author and journalist who, in his earlier life as a liberal, regularly wrote for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Playboy and Esquire, among other places he will never appear again. A contributing editor to City Journal, he written twelve books.

Reviews

[Steve]

The book, a collection of essays previously printed for Esquire, was more realistically a 3. References to pop culture and politics from an era that predates my living memory was fascinating. Also, it seems like history repeats itself in the usual ways--we all think the world is going to hell in our era. This illuminates how futile our fear mongering and hate spewing really is.

[Alisha Anaya]

I liked all the little stories

[Bonnie]

Examples are dated (because the book was published in 1982) but the message is oh-so-timely.

[Sartaj Dale]

The lessons are timeless

[Louis De Pitera]

Enjoyed

[Cynthia]

good

[Robert]

Not always correct, exactly, but as thought-provoking and revealing as it was when I read it many years ago. These are really essays about life, disguised as ethics advice.

[Wendy]

A lighthearted book of essays on ethics from the authors articles in Esquire magazine. Easy read.