“I remember seeing a policeman being dragged off, pale and struggling, by a mob, obviously to his death – that was a terrible sight that I have never forgotten.” In the same interview, he made this especially telling statement, describing a 1972 trip to Iran: “The processions round the Imam’s tomb by men who seemed to me to wear fanatical expressions on their faces terrified me. I had never seen anything so frightening since the Revolution.” Berlin’s hatred of all sorts of fanaticism is a characteristic of his later work; however accurately the 71-year old memory was reported, it demonstrates that Berlin located the germ of this passion here, in Petrograd.” Berlin’s wartime diplomatic service bore fruit in very sympathetic profiles on FDR and Churchill, gathered in Personal Impressions. Beyond the self-critical aspects of his Cold War liberalism, we recall that a large part of his final works dealt with the European “counter-Enlightenment” resistant to the rationalism and programmatic tenor of the the thinking under that banner.I often think of Berlin in tandem with the late Leszek Kolakowski in several regards, most notably in their anti-utopian stress on the tradeoffs between incommensurable social values, most notably of course between liberty and equality; I’ve just been perusing Kolakowski’s famous and enjoyably incisive rejoinder to E.P. Thompson, “My Correct Views on Everything” from 1974.