The Latest Breaking News from Isaiah Berlin

“Freedom is a core human value,” writes Joseph Stiglitz in his new book The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society. “But many of freedom’s advocates seldom ask what the idea really means. Freedom for whom? What happens when one person’s freedom comes at the expense of another’s?”

When economists and scientists with their incomplete understanding of the world become the guides of leaders and steer social and economic policies, the losers are common people and the environment

Curb the competitive streak and be open to unexpected options is among the advice from the experts.

There is not a single definition of liberty.

It wasn't just autocrats who were frequently tempted to address "fake news" about the pandemic through state pressure and coercion.

Isaiah Berlin gives a neat distinction between two types of liberties