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 ...

Commemorations continue apace for the hundredth birthday of the historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997). Born in Riga to a Russian Jewish family, he is being honored by the American Political ...

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 ...

The book has been translated into Persian by Khashyar Deihimi. Isaiah Berlin was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century, but his work also made an original and important ...

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 ...

To expand the quote that gives this book its title: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." It's from Kant, and Isaiah Berlin seized upon it many times as a stick ...

Next week the faithful will assemble to mark the centenary of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin. He'll be celebrated in Jerusalem, which he loved, in Harvard where he taught; and in Oxford, which, in his ...

This fourth volume of the late philosopher’s collected correspondence, edited by Henry Hardy and Mark Pottle, provides much to bolster the case against Berlin There must now be a risk of ...

Nicholas Shakespeare is bowled over by the ebullient figure of Isaiah Berlin as shown in Personal Impressions and Letters, both edited by Henry Hardy He was known as “the cleverest man in the world”.

Lady Berlin was a French amateur golfer who fled the Nazi occupation in her Bentley coupé and later won the heart of the philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin Aline de Gunzbourg by George Hoyningen-Huene, ...