Ignatieff now in the perfect role in Hungary

The former Liberal leader may not have been suited for politics, but he knows a thing or two about human rights.
Michael Ignatieff is now the rector of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
MONTREAL—The late Czech dissident-turned-president Vaclav Havel was a proponent of the “as-if” approach to dissent: the belief that the power of the powerless living under oppression is to behave as if their rights have not been suspended, as if sanity pertains even though absurdity rules. Th...

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