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American Imperialism and the End of Sovereignty

Alma Guillermoprieto and Michael Ignatieff, in conversation with Fintan O’Toole

Fintan O’Toole hosts New York Review contributors Alma Guillermoprieto and Michael Ignatieff for a wide-ranging conversation on the Trump administration’s imperial ambitions in Venezuela, Greenland, and beyond.

This conversation originally aired on February 5, 2026.

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Alma Guillermoprieto

Alma Guillermoprieto is a regular contributor to The New York Review. Her most recent book is The Years of Blood: Stories from a Reporting Life in Latin America. (February 2026)

Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff is President of Central European University in Budapest. His books include Isaiah Berlin: A Life and The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World. (June 2018)

Fintan O’Toole

Fintan O’Toole is the Advising Editor at The New York Review and a columnist for The Irish Times. His most recent book is For and Against a United Ireland, cowritten with Sam McBride.

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