But they were poses, and they encouraged a pose in liberals themselves. Liberals came to believe that if they were loathed by both sides, they must be doing something right. Berlin was not immune to this illusion. Being disliked equally by two extremes makes you feel self-righteous, but it doesn't prove you right. Liberals might as well confess that we haven't escaped with our reputations unscathed.
Liberalism shares the exhaustion of the whole interdependent and collusive trio.
I hope so. Books often have their own revenge on posterity. The volumes of essays he left behind will be read long after the quarrels about his reputation cease to make any sense.