Michael Ignatieff | The New York Review of Books

Making Room for God

Liberalism’s Religion

by Cécile Laborde

Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom

by Andrew Copson

The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View

by Tim Crane

June 28, 2018 issue

No, They Didn’t

March 22, 2018 issue

Who Killed Frank Olson?

Wormwood

a six-part Netflix series directed by Errol Morris

February 22, 2018 issue

Letter

Milton Leitenberg

No, They Didn’t

March 22, 2018 issue

Which Way Are We Going?

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

by Pankaj Mishra

April 6, 2017 issue

The Forever War?

Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War

by Mark Danner

September 29, 2016 issue

Stalin’s Man in Mayfair

The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s, 1932–1943

edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky and translated from the Russian by Tatiana Sorokina and Oliver Ready

May 12, 2016 issue

The Refugees & the New War

It is a mistake to fight the battle your enemies want you to fight

December 17, 2015 issue

Messianic America: Can He Explain it?

American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

by Perry Anderson

Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy

by David Milne

November 19, 2015 issue

Fukushima: The Fallout

This week, as Japan resumes nuclear power, the fishing town of Namie, on the northeast coast of Japan, still blanketed in radioactivity from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, offers a different lesson.

August 12, 2015

The Religious Specter Haunting Revolution

The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions

by Michael Walzer

June 4, 2015 issue

Letter

Aharon Eviatar

Who Are the Israeli Liberals?

November 5, 2015 issue

Letter

Tim Barker

Marx Gave No Haven

August 13, 2015 issue

The New World Disorder

September 25, 2014 issue

Are the Authoritarians Winning?

Faced with resurgent authoritarians, America sets a dismaying example to its allies and friends

Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America’s House in Order

by Richard N. Haass

Restraint: A New Foundation for US Grand Strategy

by Barry R. Posen

The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

Reforming Taxation to Promote Growth and Equity

a white paper by Joseph Stiglitz

July 10, 2014 issue

America’s Melancholic Hero

The Kennan Diaries

by George F. Kennan, edited by Frank Costigliola

March 6, 2014 issue

The Faith of a Hero

Hammarskjöld: A Life

by Roger Lipsey

November 7, 2013 issue

Letter

Stephen Sedley

The Hammarskjöld Mystery

December 5, 2013 issue

How to Save the Syrians

Whether you can protect civilians without overthrowing the regime that is oppressing them is a question that haunts us as we try to figure out what to do in Syria.

September 13, 2013

The Confessions of Kofi Annan

A cautionary tale about the fragility of moral prestige

Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

by Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh

December 6, 2012 issue

The Man Who Shaped History

The International Human Rights Movement: A History

by Aryeh Neier

October 11, 2012 issue

How Syria Divided the World

The Syrian conflict has triggered something more fundamental than a difference of opinion over intervention, something more than an argument about whether the Security Council should authorize the use of force. Syria is the moment in which the West should see that the world has truly broken into two. A loose alliance of struggling capitalist democracies now finds itself face to face with two authoritarian despotisms—Russia and China—something new in the annals of political science: kleptocracies that mix the market economy and the police state. These regimes will support tyrannies like Syria wherever it is in their interest to do so.

July 11, 2012