Isaiah Berlin Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/isaiah-berlin/ Professor, writer, politician Sun, 14 Apr 2024 09:24:21 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/michaelignatieff.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-Michael-Ignatieff-website-icon-512x512px.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Isaiah Berlin Archives - Michael Ignatieff https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/tag/isaiah-berlin/ 32 32 217957751 Isaiah Berlin – The promise of freedom https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2023/isaiah-berlin-the-promise-of-freedom/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:27:25 +0000 https://michaelignatieff.ca/?p=2515 Berlin would have warned us against hubris and intolerance, but also against fatalism. In the battle to come, history is on no one’s side. The outcome of this struggle over who owns the meaning of freedom will come down, as it always does, to the eternal question that decides history’s shape: who is prepared to fight hardest for what they believe.

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]]> 2515 Second Thoughts of a Biographer https://michaelignatieff.ca/article/2016/second-thoughts-of-a-biographer/ Tue, 20 Dec 2016 09:00:00 +0000 https://michaelignatieff.ca/?p=1848 I certainly expected to walk away. Yet it soon became obvious that my work was not done, that closure is the last thing one should expect a completed biography to deliver. Once one role is completed, a new role emerges: defender and guardian of the flame. Here loyalty and truth come into conflict once again.

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