You're Never Really Out Of Politics.

The Wars Of The Future Will Be Fought By Computer Technicians And By Lawyers And High-altitude Specialists, And That May Mean War Will Be Increasingly Abstract, Hard To Think About And Hard To Control.

The Medium's Gaze Is Brief, Intense, And Promiscuous. The Shelf Life Of The Moral Causes It Makes Its Own Is Brutally Short.

In Academic Life, False Ideas Are Merely False And Useless Ones Can Be Fun To Play With. In Political Life, False Ideas Can Ruin The Lives Of Millions And Useless Ones Can Waste Precious Resources. An Intellectual's Responsibility For His Ideas Is To Follow Their Consequences Wherever They May Lead. A Politician's Responsibility Is To Master Those Consequences And Prevent Them From Doing Harm. Michael Ignatieff, A Former Professor At Harvard And Contributing Writer For The Magazine, Is A Member Of Canada's Parliament And Deputy Leader Of The Liberal Party.

The Reason That The Croats Want A State Of Their Own Is That They Fear Being Cut Into Little Pieces By The Serbs.

No Kid Graduating In A Political Science Class In Canada Should Not Understand What's Happened To Income Inequality Since The 1970s, Period. And Then, What Do We Do About It? It's The Biggest Problem Out There, In All Western Liberal Societies.