Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It’s like a field – if it’s not cared for, the weeds will take...

During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son, my dear friend David Rieff. On one occasion, we made a special detour...