The Unexpected Benefits of the Ethically Ambivalent Job

Lessons learned from a weird experiment in ‘public diplomacy’

Yes, we put celebrities on the cover.

When I graduated college, the Iraq War was in full swing. The U.S. economy was still trying to shake off the hangover of the early-2000s stock market crash. And if that wasn’t turmoil enough, my chosen profession, journalism, was beginning to suffer the initial…