Anita Varma is the program manager for Journalism & Media Ethics as well as Business, Leadership, and Social Sector Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own.

Coming out of a recent meeting where Vice President Mike Pence had given a coronavirus update, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said: “Everyone should just wear a damn mask … like I am right now.” ...

I remember a student in my ethics class saying this as we were talking about the importance of symbols in knowing anything. I then joked that if she believed symbols were not important, she should ...