Michael Ignatieff Leaves NYT Mag, Harvard... To Save Canada!...
On Monday, Nov. 28, the government of Canada “fell” and Michael Ignatieff—the Harvard professor of human-rights policy, intellectual supporter of the war in Iraq and contributor of many thousands of words of copy to The New York Times Magazine—put the Canadians out of their misery. He promised to return home to save them.
After months of fretting and speculation, Mr. Ignatieff, 58, officially announced that he is suspending his career as an American academic-media star and moving back to Toronto, his hometown, to become a professional politician. The news came a few days before Canada’s ruling Liberal Party suffered a vote of no confidence in Parliament, forcing a federal election to be scheduled in January. Mr. Ignatieff said that he intends to run for a parliamentary seat in that election, and he is widely regarded as a potential future prime minister once the besieged current one, Paul Martin, steps down.
The New York Observer | Sheelah Kolhatkar | November 30, 2005 07:53 AM