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To Defeat Evil, We May Have To Traffic In Evils: Indefinite Detention Of Suspects, Coercive Interrogations, Targeted Assassinations, Even Pre-emptive War.

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.

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.

We Must Not Lose Sight Of The Fundamental Issue Of Policy Which Is That People Who Come To The Country On Visa Status Must Never Be Abused.

An Intellectual May Be Interested In Ideas And Policies For Their Own Sake, But A Politician's Interest Is Exclusively In The Question Of Whether An Idea's Time Has Come.