the jayson blair episode obviously a black eye. i think there's probably something in general to bills sense of the papers natural institutional biases big award to be carefully about how i phrase this. and i think one of the reasons i was asked to do this, and by the way, thank you, fred, for asking me, frank, thank you. it's nice to see you. and thanks to everyone. but i think when the reasons i was asked to do this was i am certainly a liberal, there's no question about that. if you read my stuff you know i'm a liberal. but i'm a critic to some extent of liberalism as well. over the years i have been critical i don't really agree with 100% of my old book anyway. i'm sure he's going to quote me against me again in his rebuttal. that's fine. i have been somewhat critical of multiculturalism from a liberal perspective. that perspective being in a nutshell that when we emphasize differences to such a great extent, we can forget about the things we have in common. and we can lose a sense of a common society in which we fight for and