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,
“... the pleadings of Alsop to Mac Bundy did succeed in getting the latter to release a huge tranche of Ford Foundation money to endow Wolfson College, Oxford, the foundation of which was Berlin’s noblest enterprise. So perhaps he was on to something when he expatiated about ethical ‘trade-offs’ between contrasting or alternative positions: the one ... ”
