Isaiah Berlin
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Fintan O’Toole: Donald Trump is a hostile, malign presence in Europe
- Opinion
- June 8, 2019, 06:00
Diplomacy is sometimes just a polite word for shaking hands with the devil. Its practitioners need strong stomachs and a poor sense of smell. Ireland,(...)

Philip Roth's final interview: 'Life can stop on a dime'
- Books
- January 22, 2018, 06:01
With the death of Richard Wilbur in October, Philip Roth became the longest-serving member in the literature department of the American Academy of Art(...)

Paschal Donohoe hints at higher taxes amid Brexit risks
- Economy
- December 21, 2017, 13:37
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has hinted he may refrain from tax cuts and consider increasing taxes to dampen price and wage pressures in the I(...)

Caveat: Donohoe runs shy of own advice on women directors
- Business
- November 24, 2017, 06:10
Paschal Donohoe, our surprisingly bookish Minister for Finance, was busy fiercely channelling his inner Emmanuel Macron this week. Like the French pre(...)

Straight from the hedgehog’s mouth: management guru Jim Collins
- Innovation
- April 28, 2017, 14:24
Jim Collins is telling the story of his grandfather, role model and namesake Jimmy Collins, “a truly heroic figure” who was a test pilot in the 1930s (...)

The trouble with what we call freedom
- Culture
- August 6, 2016, 05:08
In February 1917, a young boy was reading a Russian translation of a Jules Verne novel in a street in the city of St Petersburg (at the time called Pe(...)

Who owns our heritage?
- Culture
- March 19, 2016, 05:17
With his impeccable manners and scholar’s demeanour, James Cuno doesn’t come across as a man likely to generate extreme reactions. But in the fraught (...)

Roy Foster on Hubert Butler, WB Yeats and Phineas Finn
- Books
- October 2, 2014, 01:00
What was the first book to make an impression on you? Patricia Lynch’s The Grey Goose of Kilnevin. What was your favourite book as a child?(...)

Unthinkable: Are freedom and equality inevitably in conflict?
- Culture
- March 28, 2014, 01:00
Freedom is almost certainly the primary political value of our time. It is invoked as the justification for innumerable causes, its two syllabl(...)

Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’, an evil work of genius, still fascinates 500 years on
- Politics
- December 10, 2013, 00:00
At an event in Boston earlier this year, the renowned scholar Edward Muir identified the correspondence of Niccolò Machiavelli’s on December 10th, 151(...)