Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that only those who
I’d always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics – Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos
Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren’t. Harry Truman wasn’t.
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As
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
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say,
There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in
If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential
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