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Berlin Skepticism

Monday, June 24, 2024

To prevent populism, we need to be critical, as Isaiah Berlin suggested.

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IN 2004, the Freedom Institute published an Indonesian translation of Isaiah Berlin’s classic work, Four Essays on Liberty. In it, Berlin delivered a sharp message: the chaos of politics requires ‘enlightened skepticism’—an anti-messianic stance on political designs and the promises of democracy.

Socio-politics in Indonesia are often overshadowed by a messianic longing—for a kind of ‘just queen’ who

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