Michael Ignatieff discusses Cass Sunstein's On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done.
The excessive individualism in Western human rights doctrine has been criticized by the Islamic world, East Asia, and some within the West itself. But human rights advocates need not apologize; human rights are popular and necessary worldwide precisely because they protect individuals against group authority.
Two new books on Kosovo and a massive history of the Balkans try to make sense of a troubled region -- with wildly mixed results.
Michael Ignatieff's report on ethnic and other bitter mini-wars is evocative but only sporadically illuminating.
In a penetrating new book, Ernest Gellner examines an old Enlightenment idea that could be the key to the success of democratic reform in Eastern Europe.
