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From Harvard to Politics
- Michael Ignatieff, a Harvard professor, was unexpectedly asked to run for public office in Canada.
- He quickly accepted, driven by a philosophical tradition and a desire to move from theory to practice.
Politics and Fortuna
- Politics involves mastering chance, contingency, and fortune, much like Machiavelli's concept of Fortuna.
- Great politicians control time, while bad politicians become victims of it.
Politics as War
- Politics is deeply adversarial, like war, which can be shocking for academics.
- It's learned through experience and mistakes, not lectures.