Democracy Belongs To Those Who Exercise It.

Professionals Give Advice; Pilgrims Share Wisdom.

What We Need Is What The Ancient Israelites Called Hochma - The Science Of The Heart...the Capacity To See, To Feel, And Then To Act As If The Future Depended On You. Believe Me, It Does.

A Profound Transformation Is Happening Here. The Framers Of Our Nation Never Envisioned These Huge Media Giants; Never Imagined What Could Happen If Big Government, Big Publishing And Big Broadcasters Ever Saw Eye-to-eye In Putting The Public's Need For News Second To Their Own Interests. I Approach The End Of My Own Long Run Believing More Strongly Than Ever That The Quality Of Journalism And The Quality Of Democracy Are Inextricably Joined ... .

Watching The Debate This Afternoon It Was Apparent They Loved Term Limits In The House - As Brutus Loved Caesar.

Here Is The Crisis Of The Times As I See It: We Talk About Problems, Issues, Policies, But We Don't Talk About What Democracy Means - What It Bestows On Us - The Revolutionary Idea That It Isn't Just About The Means Of Governance But The Means Of Dignifying People So They Become Fully Free To Claim Their Moral And Political Agency.