I love Camile Paglia (sp?). Also Andrew Sullivan. Also Peggy Noonan, although it sometimes is like reading something by one of the Lennon Sisters. I think most people tell their version of what they see and the problem is the filters, not their lack of honesty. I think one serious filter is great naivite about how awful the world can really be, and another is too great cynicism about how it can't be changed ever no how. mg