Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin’s consideration of political judgment.

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.

Elizabeth Renzetti sketches Michael Ignatieff’s return to England this week.

The text of Michael Ignatieff’s speech—for the annual Isaiah Berlin lecture—in London, England this evening.

A very rough—and not entirely chronological—sketch of Michael Ignatieff’s time abroad.

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.