The Ruthlessness of Political Actors, a Challenge to Liberals

The way you frame the book is interesting in terms of the ruthlessness of political actors as a kind of challenge to liberal thinkers. You could say a little bit about, you know, the problem of ruthlessness that liberal thinkers took on or where it came from and some examples of it. I think that one thing that is crucial about most formed, if not all forms of liberalism is the project of putting certain limits on the use of power.