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 ...

ONCE, when collecting yet another of his numerous prizes, Sir Isaiah Berlin remarked, “I have been over-estimated all my life.” It was very nice to receive more than his due, he said, but “I cannot ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

The term "liberal" is the most overly flexible idea of contemporary political discourse. According to that comically overblown purveyor of rightwing agitprop, Ann Coulter, liberals are defined by ...

In the halcyon age before Covid, I caught a flight to a small town in Germany to see an opera about love between two philosophers. The love was not in the least bit Platonic. Hannah Arendt was 18 ...

David Caute, author of Isaac and Isaiah: the Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic, has long been a historian of ideas and a novelist. I always preferred the latter persona, in particular Comrade ...