We once assumed that liberal democracy is a self-sustaining machine. In reality, the stability we take for granted was fragile and has been easily undone. Michael Ignatieff, writer, historian, and former Leader of the Official Opposition of Canada, has spent decades thinking at the fault lines between power and principle, theory and practice. Interviewed by Oli Dugmore, journalist, commentator, and executive editor of the New Statesman, Ignatieff explores the realities of leadership, the present destruction of democratic culture, and whether liberalism still has the intellectual and moral resources to sustain and defend itself.
“Engagingly frank... elegant, thoughtful, candid." — FT