amandarecupido's review against another edition
4.0
A non-partisan approach to how we should deal with the world's evil while keeping our own moral ground.
socopebbles's review against another edition
3.0
The strongest section was the first part, in which Wolfe attempted to categorize ways political evil was described during the 20th century, how these approaches fell short, and the consequences to not fully understanding political evil. Unfortunately Wolfe fails, or perhaps didn't even want to attempt, to build a better model for both considering political evil and repudiating it. He describes three main types of political evil (terrorism, genocide, and ethnic cleansing), and more than adequately shows how inadequate our actions have been to respond to these forms of evil, but he has largely left the work of a more comprehensive model to others. Or perhaps that was his ultimate goal, to show the uselessness of building a universal model, when political evil is often unique and localized.
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