Poseur Alert

“When I would see Michael, he and I would stroll arm in arm around Covent Garden singing — poorly, of course — some of the great quintet in the first act of ‘Così Fan Tutte.’ There was in him a hunger for intellectual authority and for a certain degree of social recognition, but it was never about power," – Leon Wieseltier on Michael Ignatieff, as captured by Erich Konigsberg.