Sweet Little Lies

Moral Licensing, Anti-Semitism, and Belonging Uncertainty

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”

― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

For decades, symphony orchestras were incredibly biased in their hiring practices, selecting far more men than women.    Sadly, this put orchestras in bad company with other professions with notorious hiring imbalances, including business, technology, and Jewish communal …