workplace largely the province of men. More importantly for my purposes today, however, no one because a CEO because he was a white male, any more than today, anyone plays major league baseball because he was a man. They became CEOs because of particular abilities and ambition that they had demonstrated during their careers. No one thought about race and gender when selecting them--those were givens. To demonstrate a related point in another way, in one of the greatest films of the 1950s, Twelve Angry Men, all the jurors are white males. But some, clearly, are good guys and some are bad guys. Goodness and badness, in short, has nothing to do with race or gender--but with the content of your character.

Covert, on the other hand, seems tohim that troubles the mind of the Senator," Wade replied, "but that if we make the territories free, he cannot sell the old black Mammy when he gets her there." And that is my real objection to Covert's piece: she wants more women on corporate boards, but she doesn't seem to care what they will do when they get there.

The United States is in serious trouble today because of excessive wealth and power in the corporate world. In my not very humble opinion, we're not in trouble because there aren't enough women on the boards of Goldman Sachs, big Pharma, Exxon, and the food industry, we're in trouble because of what the people on those corporate boards are dong to us, And if there is any evidence that