Need a New Moral Authority in Your Life? Eliot Spitzer Would Like to Chat.
Frances Martel
It’s time to play a little political “Where Are They Now?” game. Remember Eliot Spitzer, the holier-than-thou ex-New York Governor who made the mistake of getting caught patronizing a major prostitution ring? It is predictable that Spitzer’s influence would keep him from seeing the inside of a jail cell no matter what his questionable behavior, but that he has yet to join the crew of a low-brow reality show or released a tell-all book comes as somewhat of a surprise.
What he has been investing his time on, sadly, is a return to the political spotlight and the million-dollar industry of guest lecturing. Governor Spitzer is being showcased for a discussion on government intervention in the free market at the Edmund J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University this Thursday. No, that’s not a typo: Governor Eliot Spitzer, whose claim to fame is patronizing a high-end prostitution ring, is lecturing Harvard students on ethical behavior, at least in the marketplace. Spitzer’s lecture is entitled “From Ayn Rand to Ken Feinberg – How Quickly the Paradigm Shifts. What Should Be the Rationale for Government Participation in the Market?” If the goal of the discussion is to provide a comfortable venue to discussion government intervention in the market, a man whose political career is defined by his corporate bullying and private endorsement of illegal companies seems, at the very least, a peculiar choice.
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