What he says is mostly common sense. The government, the media, and the corporate world have been undermined by the determination to win at any cost, and by the eroding over time of adherence to unspoken norms and laws; as a result, money is taken from the poor to further enrich the rich, those who aren't already wealthy have no influence over the government, and facts are tailored to individual biases and convictions. A very few people win, everyone else loses.

He suggests renewing our demand that leaders behave like the trustees of the common good they are supposed to be, and the rest of us educate ourselves to recognise and defend truth. All well and good. But how we're meant to do this when the only people who have the power to change things are the very ones who most benefit from the way things are, he does not make clear.