liberal democracy Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/liberal-democracy/ Professor, writer, politician Sun, 14 Apr 2024 09:24:21 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://i0.wp.com/michaelignatieff.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-Michael-Ignatieff-website-icon-512x512px.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 liberal democracy Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/liberal-democracy/ 32 32 217957751 Isaiah Berlin – The promise of freedom https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2023/isaiah-berlin-the-promise-of-freedom/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:27:25 +0000 https://michaelignatieff.ca/?p=2515 Berlin would have warned us against hubris and intolerance, but also against fatalism. In the battle to come, history is on no one’s side. The outcome of this struggle over who owns the meaning of freedom will come down, as it always does, to the eternal question that decides history’s shape: who is prepared to fight hardest for what they believe.

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]]> 2515 Democracy Versus Democracy: The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2022/democracy-versus-democracy-the-populist-challenge-to-liberal-democracy/ Thu, 13 Oct 2022 05:47:20 +0000 https://michaelignatieff.ca/?p=2375 The populist revolt against mainstream politics highlights tensions between majority rule and rule of law that are intrinsic to any version of democracy worth defending. Provided these questions are debated and resolved within the institutions of democracy itself, then the conflict is not a negative phenomenon, but a positive one, a sign of the inherent vitality of democracy.

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]]> 2375 Democracy Versus Democracy: The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2020/democracy-vs-democracy-the-populist-challenge-to-iberal-democracy/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:00:00 +0000 https://michaelignatieff.ca/?p=1784 The current populist challenges in western liberal democracies should not be seen as evidence of their decline, but as a constituent part. The history of democracy shows us that such challenges enable democracy’s growth and evolution.

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