Michael Ignatieff

As a lifelong liberal and a former practicing politician, Michael Ignatieff faces a world he never expected: the rise of a counter-revolutionary right and the near collapse of the liberal international order created after 1945. This situation is not without precedent. Liberals rebuilt the liberal vision in the decades after the autocratic restoration of 1815 in Europe, and they rebuilt a liberal international order in 1945. Ignatieff wants to return to these moments and draw inspiration for the future of liberalism from these episodes of renewal in the liberal past.