You're a True Student of Isiah

Isiah: I wanted to talk a little bit about some sociological issues, one of which i mentioned to you in an email where i talked about british eccentricity. You mention it repeatedly throughout your book, the inherent consistency between berlin's philosophical or academic or moral framework and his general attitude towards life. He was, as you wrote, entirely free of the wish to organize and regiment people. How he gloried in personal variousness, how he had this wide circle of friends. And that was something that clearly gave him a tremendous amount of satisfaction - part of a life whell lived. Isiah: To me, i've long associated with britain the idea there