A Message to the 21st Century
The misguided search for a single, overarching ideal
October 23, 2014 issue
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Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a philosopher and historian of ideas who held the Chichele Professorship of Social and Political Theory at Oxford. The final volume of his correspondence, Affirming: Letters 1975–1997, was published in December 2015.
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