In the Line of Fire, 3rd Edition

Chapter Two

Tough Questions

Case Studies: Timothy Leary • Benjamin Franklin • Socrates • Mike Wallace, CBS • Richard Scrushy, HealthSouth • Karen Tumulty, Time Magazine • John Boehner • Quentin Tarantino • Helene Poirier, Cisco • NetRoadshow • David Bellet, Crown Advisors • Leslie Pfrang, Class V Group • Mark Twain

Question authority.

■ Why People Ask Tough Questions ■

During the tumultuous counterculture movement of the 1960s, Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary incited his followers to “turn on, tune in, drop out” and, citing the directive of the epigraph, to question the authority of existing social and political institutions.¹ Ben Franklin, as one of the founding fathers of the United States, is said to have urged its citizens, newly independent ...