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,
“... charm. Uncomplainingly eating the terrible food we offered him, he awarded imaginary Marx marks to the old Russophobe, making the assumption that he would have been a PPE student. (‘A beta-alpha for economics – no, I rather think a beta – but an alpha, definitely an alpha for politics.’) He gave his personal reasons for opposing Marxism (‘I ... ”