Isaiah Berlin’s consideration of political judgment.
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Thoughts about thinking politicians
Whenever we seriously consider a political leader—or, for that matter, any public figure—one of the inevitable problems is to try to reconcile what they do with what we imagine they think.
‘I’m not sure how much people know about what he’s gone on to do’
Elizabeth Renzetti sketches Michael Ignatieff’s return to England this week.
‘Liberalism is not a bloodless breviary for rootless cosmopolitans’
The text of Michael Ignatieff’s speech—for the annual Isaiah Berlin lecture—in London, England this evening.
Apropos of nothing (III)
A very rough—and not entirely chronological—sketch of Michael Ignatieff’s time abroad.
Michael Ignatieff Eyebrow Watch
Distressing news. As reported elsewhere, the Liberal leader, Mr. Ignatieff, has apparently resolved to spend more time trimming his formidable eyebrows in the new year. For shame. Once more, politics is forcing compromise on this man.