The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

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.

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

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.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.