Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century.

It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights.

Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.