Clinton Foundation & Corruption: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton’s Love of Power

Clinton Foundation & Corruption: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton’s Love of Power | National Review
"For Bill and Hillary, it’s mainly about the power — not the money.
...Another reason I bring it up is that I think Hillary Clinton’s corruption is a good illustration of how we have corrupted our understanding of corruption itself. 
Corruption is a deeply misunderstood word.
Today we associate it almost exclusively with graft, bribe-taking, and other forms of essentially financial malfeasance.
Graft is certainly a form of corruption, but not all forms of corruption can be described as graft. In fact, most of the corruptions in life don’t involve money at all.
My Dad always used to say that the most corrupting thing in everyday life was friendship, not money. What he meant by that is that we do things for friends we would (almost) never do for strangers offering cash.
For the sake of argument, let’s imagine that in ten or 15 years, a longtime friend of mine, say Steve Hayes, asks me to get his kid an internship at National Review or AEI (assuming they haven’t fired me by then). I’m not saying I would automatically do it; there are other considerations at play.
But let’s assume that on paper the kid is qualified. I would certainly consider it (at least to spare the young’n the professional and moral stain of working at that hive of mopery and insolence, The Weekly Standard).
But if some stranger offered me $1,000 dollars to get his kid an internship, I’m certain I would reject the entreaty summarily.
This highlights the difference between morals and ethics.
It is unethical — and arguably immoral — to take a bribe of this sort.
But, in practice, it doesn’t matter whether or not it’s immoral to do this kind of favor for a friend because the simple fact is that it happens 100,000 times a day all around the world.
Teamsters help get their buddy’s kids into the union, college trustees help their golfing partner’s kid navigate the application process, generals give their incompetent old friends nice billets out of personal loyalty.
That’s because favors are the original currency of mankind. 
This is not a controversial point in the academic literature. ..."