SALENA ZITO: Our bender of political instability shows no signs of stopping.

One of the arguments I have made repeatedly is that the decision-makers in these political and cultural institutions need more diversity of thought and perspective in their boardrooms: more state school graduates, more people from impoverished city neighborhoods or rural small towns, more people who sit in a pew on a regular basis or work with their hands.

I'm reminded of the quote by William F. Buckley Jr. “I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.”

But I wouldn't trust the Manhattan phone book either ... (and there probably aren't 2000 people left in Manhattan).