America's Complicated Relationship with Whistleblowers

We claim to want people to do the right thing, but then turn against them when they do.

It was great to have a chance to have an extended conversation with journalist Tom Mueller, author of Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud — a book I keep going back to as I write my own. We discussed how whistleblowing is baked in to the founding of the country, and how we both revere and vilify those who expose misconduct and corrup…

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