Thank you for joining us for episode 571 of Live Happy Now.

It's no secret that we're living in a time when we're being challenged by misinformation and deception.

And this week's guest is doing something about it.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm joined by Christian B. Miller, the AC-Reed Professor

of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. His books and articles have focused heavily on morality

and virtues, and he directed the Honesty Project, one of the largest research initiatives

ever undertaken on honesty. His latest book, The Honesty Crisis, looks at six specific areas where dishonesty is rampant,

and he connects the dots on how that erodes our trust in institutions and in each other.

Today, we talk about what honesty means, how this honesty crisis is affecting us, and what we

can do about it. Let's have a listen.

Christian, thank you so much for joining me today on Live Happy Now.

Thank you so much for having me on your show.

This is going to be a fantastic conversation. Your latest book is The Honesty Crisis, and

wow, is that a timely topic? I know that you've written in the past about morality and character,

and I wanted to learn a little bit about how all that led into writing about honesty.

I'm a philosophy professor at Wake Forest University. I've been working on the topic of virtue and character for pretty much 20 years.

And I was thinking about it from a very broad perspective, just what is virtue, what is character writ large?

And I was thinking, how can we foster a better character?

What does our character look like these days empirically?

What does the psychological research tell us?

And that sustained me for a while.

But then I said what I want to say, both for the academics and for the popular audience.

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