Workers of the world, forgive us.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)

From: The Washington Times | Date: November 21, 1997| Author: Grenier, Richard | Copyright information

I'd no idea we were so numerous. For I, too, studied under the late Sir Isaiah Berlin, not at Oxford, but at Harvard where he was a visiting professor. But I'm slightly staggered at the huge outpouring of praise at the death of a professor of whom I'd somehow gotten the impression that he was a private taste of mine.

He was, I believe, our age's greatest scholar of political thought, and now that it turns out this is what almost everybody thinks, it's quite beyond me ...

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