There's Intense National Feeling In America That

In Academic Life, False Ideas Are Merely False And Useless Ones Can Be Fun To Play With. In Political Life, False Ideas Can Ruin The Lives Of Millions And Useless Ones Can Waste Precious Resources. An Intellectual's Responsibility For His Ideas Is To Follow Their Consequences Wherever They May Lead. A Politician's Responsibility Is To Master Those Consequences And Prevent Them From Doing Harm. Michael Ignatieff, A Former Professor At Harvard And Contributing Writer For The Magazine, Is A Member Of Canada's Parliament And Deputy Leader Of The Liberal Party.

Memory Is The Only Afterlife I Have Ever Believed In. But The Forgetting Inside Us Cannot Be Stopped. We Are Programmed To Betray.

The Reason That The Croats Want A State Of Their Own Is That They Fear Being Cut Into Little Pieces By The Serbs.

A Liberal Society Cannot Be Defended By Herbivores. We Need Carnivores To Save Us, But We Had Better Make Sure The Meat-eaters Hunt Only On Our Orders.

The Conservatives Hold Rural Places Because They Keep Bombarding Rural Canada With, "liberals Are A Bunch Of Urban, Metropolitan Snobs Who Don't Care About You And Want To Leave You Dead By The Roadside." We've Simply Got To Go Out And Say, "they're Lying To You About Us. We Actually Care About You More Than The Other Guys, And We're Not Going To Pander To Your Prejudices - We're Going To Give Hope To Your Kids."