Historian and Political Philosopher Michael Ignatieff Wins the Eighth Annual Zócalo Book Prize
The Ordinary Virtues Examines How Trust, Honesty, and Respect Can Glue a Fractured World Back Together
Michael Ignatieff—president and rector of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, and writer, most recently of The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World—is the winner of the eighth annual Zócalo Book Prize.
The prize is given to the nonfiction book that most enhances our understanding of community, human connectedness, and social cohesion. Ignatieff is a prominent public intellectual who has held positions at some of North America’s and Europe’s most well-regarded institutions, including Oxford, Harvard, the Canadian Parliament, and the …
