Culture

Salieri's agonizing recognition of Mozart's effortless mastery. The tragedy of someone who can perceive greatness but cannot achieve it.

Alex Honnold free-solos El Capitan - 3,000 feet of granite, no rope, no margin for error. A documentary about a man who has eliminated every possible mistake because on this wall there are none to spare. Mastery as the complete integration of mind and body.

Thomas More refuses to endorse Henry VIII's divorce even at the cost of his life. Integrity as the value that outlasts you.

A woman without legal credentials exposes corporate contamination of a town's water supply. Truth-telling at personal cost.

Boston Globe journalists refuse to let institutional abuse be buried. Integrity as the decision to keep digging when stopping would be easier.

One juror's refusal to rubber-stamp what everyone else already decided. Integrity as the willingness to be the only dissenting voice.

Chesley Sullenberger's integrity put on trial after he saved 155 lives. The story of a man who did the right thing and then had to defend it.

Woodward and Bernstein following the Watergate story wherever it leads, past every obstacle and threat. Integrity as the decision to keep pulling the thread even when powerful people want you to drop it.