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Michael Ignatieff
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror
Hay Festival 2004,
The novelist and Harvard Professor of Human Rights Practice explores how a violent response to violence arguably makes us morally indistinguishable from our enimies, and confronts the political challenge of trying to win the war against terror without losing our democratic souls.