Michael Ignatieff: CEU - The Struggle for Academic Freedom in the 21st Century

Saturday, September 29, 2018 Michael Ignatieff in converstaion with Eric Frey CEU, the Central European University founded in Budapest in 1991, has become a global symbol for the struggle for academic freedom. In the face of relentless attacks by Viktor Orbán, it has defended the academy’s liberal values, standing as a beacon of resistance against the Hungarian government’s professed illiberalism. CEU’s President ­ Michael ­Ignatieff reports on the situation in Budapest and the institution’s decision, ann