Michael Ignatieff on How To Stay True to Liberal Values in Politics

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.7 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Michael Ignatieff, a renowned author and academic, is the former Leader of Canada’s Liberal Party. While Ignatieff was serving as Rector of Central European University, the university was pushed out of Budapest by the Hungarian government. In this week’s conversation, Michael Ignatieff and Yascha Mounk discuss the rise of illiberal conservatism, the pitfalls of liberalism, and how to find consolation in trying times. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	So recently Sunrise D.C. the Washington, D.C. based affiliate of the youth-led
1:03.8	environmentalist organization found itself in the middle of a controversy that I think few people
1:08.2	would have imagined ever existing just a few years earlier.
1:11.2	The activists at the organization decided to pull out of a rally advocating for voting rights because of the presence of what they called Zionist organizations, which were certain Jewish American groups with whom they had big disagreements with about Israel and the Palestinians.
1:23.5	This set off a big political fracas and a lot of finger pointing and eventually Sunrise DC
1:28.1	apologized for singling out the organizations but still insisted on their particular view on the Middle East.
1:33.6	I'm Zedjalan in a new piece for persuasion called progressives need to focus.
1:38.2	I argued that this was an example of how organizations founded for a narrow or single issue purpose have increasingly
1:45.3	started branching out into a sort of an intersectional approach to progressive politics which
1:49.6	insists on a certain level of purity, which is just on a certain level of, I think, progressive unanimity on a certain level of purity which insist on a certain level of I think progressive
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