A Country That Fails To Value Its

If It's Not True, Don't Say It; If It's Not Right, Don't Do It.

What Is Certain Is That Plurality And Diversity Are Not, And Never Can Be, A Natural 'byproduct' Of Unregulated Market Forces.

At Least In The West, Politicians, Corporations And Media Moguls Can No Longer Take For Granted Their Power To Control The Public Discourse - And Have It Go Unchallenged.

Without Any Doubt At All, Teacher Quality Is The Fundamental Differentiator. Not Just, Incidentally, Of Education, But I Would Argue, Probably The Biggest Single Differentiator Of Success For The Nations Of The 21st Century.

Newspapers And Their Editors Have To Become As Accountable As The Rest Of Us - They Are Not 'a Special Case,' And They Have Only Themselves To Blame For Having Lost The Argument For 'exceptionalism' - And With It The Right To 'self-regulation.