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26 Sep 2011, 1:55 pm by Michael M. O'Hear
Drawing on Isaiah Berlin’s famous fox-hedgehog distinction, he found a “dimension [that] did what none of the measures of professional background could do: distinguish observers of the contemporary scene with superior forecasting records, across regions, topics, and time. [read post]
1 Aug 2016, 7:22 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
(Indian Child Welfare Act – Placement)In re Isaiah W. [read post]
16 May 2011, 9:18 am by Neomi Rao
  Subsequent posts will provide examples of how courts often use dignity to gloss over difficult tradeoffs in individual rights.In analyzing the uses of dignity, I take the approach of the fox, not the hedgehog (“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing,” said the Greek poet Archilochus.). [read post]
26 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
” In a well-known essay, philosopher Isaiah Berlin divided thinkers into hedgehogs—who repeatedly return to a single core idea—and foxes—who explore a great many different ones. [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 8:39 pm
Ed certainly deserves credit as a hedgehog for his liberty theory, but he was more than a hedgehog; he was also a fox--and a fox with a heart of gold at that. [read post]
2 Jul 2009, 4:51 am
One of my most treasured Suffolk colleagues has suggested that I am a hedgehog, in the sense of the Greek saying (appropriated by Isaiah Berlin) that the fox has many clever ideas, but the hedgehog has one big one. [read post]
1 Oct 2008, 6:02 pm
In Isaiah Berlin's taxonomy, we're hedgehogs but Supreme Court justices are foxes. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 11:29 am
The variety of his intellectual pursuits (from architecture to mineralogy to zoology, with pretty much everything in between) was so astonishing; he may well have been the only person in history who was, to use Isaiah Berlin's well-known dichotomy, both a great Hedgehog and a great Fox, propounder of some of history's greatest Big Ideas and simultaneously one of the planet's leading experts on cartographic techniques, viniculture, canal-building, plow design,… [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 2:10 pm
I have spent much of my legal career focused on the military death penalty, (In the Isaiah Berlin fox/hedgehog dichotomy, I am a hedgehog.) [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 9:31 am by Lovechilde
In The Next Voting Rights Movement Must Start Now, CAF's Isaiah J. [read post]
22 Dec 2013, 12:00 am
When a Fox News anchorwoman asserted that Santa was, of course, white, a mini-battle in ongoing culture wars was struck. [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 7:25 am by Ronald Collins
The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins on the occasion of the publication of David M. [read post]