The Country and Its Shadows

A nation is held together by the stories it is brave enough to tell about itself, and no democracy grows by hiding its shadows from the light. It has often been said that leadership is a practice and not a title, and | believe the same is true of journalism and literature. They are not ornaments of society. They are practices of memory, of conscience, of correction, and of renewal.

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