Fragments of Shattered Empire
Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste ’79, Vienna ’85, Prague ’89 By Richard Bassett. Allen Lane, 2019. Hardcover, 207 pages, $35. Reviewed by Kevin J. McNamara Empires demand histories as imperious as their subjects, but their aftermath, as this work by Richard Bassett...An Anti-Utopian Life
Isaiah Berlin: A Life, by Michael Ignatieff. New York: Owl Books, 1999. Paper, 356pp., $16. Isaiah Berlin, who died in 1997, was that rare man of letters who was also a man of the world. If Churchill was the statesman who earned laurels as an historian, Berlin was the...
@NadyaWilliams81 @cjscalia @ubookman Nadya, I enjoyed this thoughtful and sharply written essay on an important book. Some day we might look for a chance to hash these issues out. Maybe with Christopher. What are the limits of political criteria? What does Christian humanism say on this question?