liberalism Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/liberalism/ Professor, writer, politician Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:59:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/michaelignatieff.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-Michael-Ignatieff-website-icon-512x512px.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 liberalism Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/liberalism/ 32 32 217957751 The Adults in the Room: Cold War Liberalism Revisited https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2025/the-adults-in-the-room-cold-war-liberalism-revisited/ Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:44:27 +0000 https://michaelignatieff.ca/?p=2937 A personal journey through North American liberalism, from inherited family values to political evolution, examining liberal identity and challenges in modern democracy.

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]]> 2937 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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]]> 1784 Cold War Liberalism https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2013/cold-war-liberalism/ Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:00:00 +0000 https://wp19.infinhost.net/?p=1233 We can begin to understand why the barbarians were a kind of solution. They forced us to remember what freedom was and to imagine what it could be once again. Now we face a new challenge: how to conserve liberal freedoms once our citizens feel safe enough to take them for granted.

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