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You Can't Get Back To Power By Defining Your Project In Negative Terms. But It Helps To Have Somebody In Office Who Represents The Opposite Of What You Believe.

Patriotism Is Strong Nationalistic Feeling For A Country Whose Borders And Whose Legitimacy And Whose Ethnic Composition Is Taken For Granted.

Tad Homer-dixon Is A Rare Kind Of Public Intellectual, Who Combines Real Expertise With A Commitment To Communicate To The Widest Possible Readership. In The Ingenuity Gap He Wants Us All To Wake-up To The Fearful Possibility That Our Blithe Trust In Science And Technology May Be Misplaced. Human Ingenuity May Not Be Capable Of Coping With Two Emerging Crises Of This Century And The Next: Population Growth And Environmental Despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's Wake-up Call And You Will See The Future Very Differently.

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.

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