David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

that surprising. Anyone who has ever sat
in a classroom knows that it is important
for teachers to earn the respect of their
students.
What is harder to understand,
however, is the importance of these
same principles when it comes to law
and order. We know our parents and our
teachers, so it makes sense that
legitimacy should matter a lot inside the
home or the school. But the decision
about whether to rob a bank or shoot
someone seems like it belongs to a very
different category, doesn’t it? That’s
what Leites and Wolf meant when they
said that fighting criminals and
insurgents “requires neither sympathy