Reckoning with Freedom
A Memoir
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Reckoning with Freedom
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For much of Michael Ignatieff's lifetime, beginning in his teenage years, the expansion of individual freedom seemed to be one of history's great success stories. The civil rights movement. Feminism. Decolonization. 2SLGBTQ+ rights. The collapse of communism. Across the second half of the twentieth century, democratic ideals reshaped societies around the world and inspired generations to believe that history was bending toward greater liberty.
Today, that confidence has been profoundly shaken and so much of what the liberal revolution achieved is under attack. With President Trump in power in Washington and anti-liberal authoritarian parties on the rise in Europe, a counter-revolution is underway.
Drawing on a lifetime spent as a historian, journalist, public intellectual and political leader, Ignatieff traces the extraordinary rise of the liberal revolution in Canada and around the world, and the powerful backlash now challenging many of its defining achievements. Weaving together personal memoir with intellectual history, he reflects on the moments that shaped both his own life—including his time as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada—and the modern democratic world, from the optimism of the postwar era to today's resurgence of nationalism, authoritarianism and political polarization.
In a time of unravelling and disillusion, Ignatieff offers a defence of the liberal revolution and a call to remain true to the emotion that inspired it: the longing for individual freedom. Thoughtful, deeply informed and urgently relevant, Reckoning with Freedom examines not only how we arrived here, but where we go next.
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