Michael Ignatieff on what the US president-elect’s threats mean for the Americas and beyond
ECJ ruling on illegality of expelling Soros-linked university throws down the gauntlet to EU
US-accredited courses to switch to Vienna after complaint of pressure from Orban government
Michael Ignatieff on why we have to look beyond group identity and failed meritocracy
Budapest’s Central European University in dispute with Orban government
Michael Ignatieff’s search for the ‘ordinary virtues’ underpinning politics around the world offers little comfort for liberals
Central European University, founded by the billionaire, faces closure
How globalisation has disempowered elites and fuelled populism
Risk avoidance has led a conscientious American president into a diabolical transaction, writes Michael Ignatieff
Canada’s leader will find reviving democracy does not make for a quiet life, writes Michael Ignatieff
Popular sovereignty is swimming against an authoritarian tide, writes Michael Ignatieff
Europeans have been slow to recognise the world as it is rather than as they imagined
Where peoples have lived in peace, secession is the worst sin in politics, writes Michael Ignatieff
The power of the new technology barons must be held in check, says Michael Ignatieff
Conservatives and progressives have to learn from each other, writes Michael Ignatieff
Impose a quarantine of Syria, writes Michael Ignatieff
Scotland must negotiate, not dictate a divorce, writes Michael Ignatieff
Turning to experts to solve problems of legitimacy is a sign, not of strength, but weakness, writes Michael Ignatieff
As the west counts the costs of foreign adventurism, nostalgia for the British empire gives way to a renewed sense of shame
Stubbornness, caginess and occasional sycophancy are needed to defend oneself in politics
