The Ethics of Elizabeth Edwards

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Elizabeth Edward’s latest round of interviews about her husband’s affair has gotten our friend Randy Cohen thinking: Is she wrong to put her family through this again, just to promote her latest book? (It’s called Resilience, by the way.) Randy Cohen is The Ethicist, columnist for The New York Times Magazine, and the author of the new Moral of the Story blog.

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