Moderation or Death
Christopher Hitchens: Isaiah Berlin, 26 November 1998
Isaiah Berlin: A Life
by Michael Ignatieff.
Chatto, 386 pp., £20, October 1998,0 7011 6325 9 Show More
by Michael Ignatieff.
Chatto, 386 pp., £20, October 1998,
The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin
by György Dalos.
Murray, 250 pp., £17.95, September 2002,0 7195 5476 4 Show More
by György Dalos.
Murray, 250 pp., £17.95, September 2002,
“... named Abraham Stern, travelling to Italy to take up a scholarship in classics at the University of Florence, offered by Mussolini’s government. When they got talking, Isaiah asked him what Stern thought of the recent British move to create a legislative council in Palestine. We shall fight that, Stern said. Why? Because it would give the Arabs representation ... ”