Give the man credit: Michael Ignatieff, lately of Harvard University, the British Broadcasting Corporation and King’s College (Cambridge), is showing a real aptitude for politics.
As a writer, Ignatieff won acclaim for his dense, deeply considered meditations on issues of nationhood, human rights and international responsibility. Ignatieff’s reputation for intellectual and moral seriousness caught the   more

Last week, the President of Iran published an 18-page letter to the President of the United States. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s epistle tells us a lot we don’t especially need to know: It tells us that he believes that the Jews faked the Holocaust, and the U.S. faked 9/11; that Jesus would have supported today’s Islamic extremists   more

It’s not easy to be an enlightened liberal internationalist these days.
An enlightened liberal internationalist wants to send troops to the Sudanese region of Darfur to protect a majority Muslim population against murderous Islamic extremist militias.
On the other hand, he or she must oppose keeping troops in Iraq to protect a majority Muslim population against murderous   more

Who messed up Iraq? Donald Rumsfeld is the usual nominee. For conservative hawks, attacks on the U.S. Defence Secretary provide a way to attack the war without attacking the larger administration. And for liberal opponents of the war, attacks on Rumsfeld provide a way to attack the war without attacking the military that planned and   more