Yes, we can insist on a purging of public lies - a true reform. But we repeat a major blunder if we conclude that the problem of self-serving deception belongs to someone else. ''When I talk about the contaminated moral atmosphere,'' Havel presumed to tell his fellow citizens, ''I mean all of us.''
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Jesslyn Roebuck
Jesslyn Roebuck used to help edit the Social Justice section of Identity Theory.