Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

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

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.

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

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.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.