Michael Ignatieff pushes aside this commercial, foamy emotion [of happiness] and dives into the murkier waters beneath.

... for those who find consolation as elusive, if not as impossible, as a political solution to our darkening times, Ignatieff’s book makes an eloquent and empathetic case for us to look a bit longer.

Thoughtful.

[A] searching meditation.

The author is generous in providing cases in point.