Continuing my series of old book reviews that I am publishing while I am away in South Africa, here is my review of Michael Ignatieff’s biography of Isaiah Berlin, originally published in the Independent on Sunday, 25 October 1998. Review of Michael Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin: A Life Independent on Sunday, 25 October 1998 In the autumn of 1951 Isaiah Berlin wrote an essay in the Jewish Chronicle putting the case for Zionism. Until the founding of Israel, he observed, no Jew […]

Categories: Culture & Books, Philosophy & Ethics • Tags: anti-semitism, human nature, isaiah berlin, israel, liberalism, michael ignatieff, palestine, pluarlism, ts eliot, zionism