Isaiah Berlin—renowned liberal theorist, historian of ideas, Oxford don, cultural gadfly—was one of the great raconteurs of his generation. According to Robert Darnton, a professor of history at ...

This first selected volume of the celebrated philosopher's prodigious correspondence reveals an intimately charming "Shaya" (as he familiarly signed himself) to match the erudite Oxford don and ...

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 30, No. 2, Special Issue: Jewish Conditions, Theories of Nationalism (June 2017), pp. 183-199 (17 pages) Isaiah Berlin contributed ...

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Mahi is the publisher of the book translated by Reza Rezai. Berlin’s response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in ...

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 1, No. 2, Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Liberal Democracy (Jun., 1998), pp. 279-289 (11 pages) This paper is a homage to Isaiah Berlin. It argues that ...

I was recently heartened by my discovery of a letter written by Sir Isaiah Berlin, the Oxford-based scholar and philosopher, to his friend Alastair Cooke, journalist and broadcaster noted for his BBC ...

Speaking in praise of freedom has fallen out of fashion in American politics. That throws public discourse out of step with the country’s constitutional system, which puts a premium on protecting ...

Eight months ago, I came across a passage in a book that has haunted me since. It was in Michael Ignatieff's biography of Isaiah Berlin, and it concerns a night Berlin spent in Leningrad in 1945.

This week is Vietnam week in the Strategy & War Course, and the philosopher Isaiah Berlin provided an oddball way to get the conversation started. Precisely six decades ago, in 1953, Berlin published ...