If I Am Not Elected, I Imagine

Mr. Kaplan Is The First Traveler To Take Us On A Journey To The Jagged Places Where These Tectonic Plates Meet, And His Argument--that Our Future Is Being Shaped Far Away 'at The Ends Of The Earth'--makes His Travelogue Pertinent And Compelling Reading.

Political Utopias Are A Form Of Nostalgia For An Imagined Past Projected Onto The Future As A Wish.

There Are Lots Of Nations In The World Or National Peoples Who Don't Yet Have States. They're Inside Someone Else's State And They Want A State Of Their Own.

There's A Financial Cost, But The Only Costs That Are Ever Real Are The Costs Of Our Soldiers.

There's Intense National Feeling In America That Could Be Called Patriotism.