All War Aims For Impunity.

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.

I'm Very Struck By What You Can Do In A Classroom. I've Got 200 Students. You Don't Do Partisan Politics In A Classroom, That's Not Appropriate. But You Want To Give Them A Strong Sense That These Are The Issues That Matter.

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

We Can't Afford To Waste People. We Can't Afford To Have People Think The Game Is Over Before It's Begun. We've Got To Be Saying To The Canadian People: You Can't Tax Cut Your Way To A Productive 21st-century Economy. You Can Talk That Talk, But It's Not Going To Give You A Productive 21st-century Economy, Because It Will Scythe Apart The Public Goods That Make Prosperity Possible. That's What We've Got To Say, And So We Shall.

I Teach Students That What People Say About Failure In Politics Is Mostly Wrong. People Always Told Me, 'they'll Praise You On Your Way Up And Kick You On Your Way Down.' That Wasn't My Experience. I Can't Walk Down The Street In Toronto Without Someone Coming Up And Saying Hello.