'"A society is not a market. It is a political community."
Michael Ignatieff is a leading public intellectual who preceded Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney as Leader of Canada's Liberal Party. Rising to prominence through his reporting on ethnic nationalism in the 1990s, Ignatieff became one of the central interpreters of the post–Cold War world, chronicling the dilemmas of intervention, human rights, and the fragile architecture of liberal order.
The bestselling author of Blood and Belonging, The Needs of Strangers, Virtual War, and the political memoir Fire and Ashes, he has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard’s Kennedy School, where his lectures on political ethics shaped a generation of policymakers. As Rector and President of the Central European University, he became a global symbol of the fight for academic freedom, leading the institution through its forced exile from Budapest during a period of rising authoritarianism in Europe.
"An extraordinary meditation on loss and mortality, drawing on all of Michael Ignatieff's powers as a philosopher, a historian, a politician, and a man." — Rory Stewart, author of The Places in Between
