Conflict has changed its setting, not its seriousness. What the book presses on is the cost of asking fighters to endure a war after the battlefield has moved.

Convenience is not accepted as neutral. The deeper argument is that what makes life easier may also be altering it in ways not easily reversed.

Nearness does not guarantee recognition. What this book makes plain is how easily whole worlds can exist side by side without ever meeting.

Corporate virtue is examined here with unusual impatience. What begins to show is how easily language of conscience can become another tool of calculation.