Michael Ignatieff

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The Sun King Is Back—and His Name Is Trump - Democracy was built to stop men like him

The Sun King Is Back—and His Name Is Trump - Democracy was built to stop men like him

WHAT IF, IN THE RUINS of the liberal international order, the world is spiralling back not to the fascist 1930s, not to the gunboat imperialism of the late nineteenth century, but all the way back to the rule of warrior princes, and their predatory cliques, in early modern Europe?

When the Sun King goes to Davos - Or is it the mafia don?

When the Sun King goes to Davos - Or is it the mafia don?

Louis XIV, the Sun King. What if, in the ruins of the liberal international order, the world is spiraling back, not to the fascist 1930’s, not to the gunboat imperialism of the late 19th century, but all the way back to the rule of warrior princes and their predatory cliques in early modern Europe? That’s where two American political scientists...

After Venezuela, the Unthinkable Enters Canadian Politics

After Venezuela, the Unthinkable Enters Canadian Politics

WHEN HITLER SWALLOWED CZECHOSLOVAKIA in 1938 and then divided Poland with Stalin in 1939, my parents’ generation decided, coming home from the war, to place the sovereignty of nation states at the heart of the United Nations Charter. With the operation in Venezuela, our generation has to ask, and not for the first time, whether anything now survives of a...

What’s the price we’re willing to pay for Canada?

What’s the price we’re willing to pay for Canada?

Unless we fix what’s in our power to fix, the forces bearing down on us may make the Canada we knew impossible to sustain. We’ve all been thinking about our country lately. It’s something we haven’t done with the same intensity since the days of the Quebec referenda. We’re thinking about the price we’ll have to pay to stay who...