public Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/public/ Professor, writer, politician Tue, 19 Oct 2021 03:20:42 +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 public Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/public/ 32 32 217957751 The Price of Everything https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2012/the-price-of-everything/ Fri, 18 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000 https://wp19.infinhost.net/?p=1524 As long as money is moralized as speech, and not understood as power, there is little chance that the republic can put money in its proper place. Without a politics—of redistributive taxation, public goods investment for growth, and rules controlling money in politics—any critique of what money has done to American life is just moralizing.

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]]> 1524 Citizenship and Moral Narcissism https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/1989/citizenship-and-moral-narcissism/ Sun, 01 Jan 1989 09:00:00 +0000 https://michaelignatieff.ca/?p=1957 Putting freedom first is what liberal society has always stood for. There is nothing wrong with enterprise, initiative, personal responsibility or even the lawful pursuit of private profit. What is incoherent is believing these goals can be achieved without a citizenship of entitlement, without the shared foundation that alone Makes freedom possible for all.

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