Judges and Judiciary
Jan. 20, 2006
Strict Constructionism Bends in Alito Hearings
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing," wrote the Greek poet Archilochus. From this insight, historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin framed a celebrated essay in 1978, distinguishing between writers and thinkers who frame the world and values in a unified, coherent and universalized way in contrast with foxes - which are more multifarious, disjointed and complex in how they defend their core understandings.
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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing," wrote the Greek poet Archilochus. From this insight, historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin framed a celebrated essay in 1978, distinguishing between writers and thinkers who frame the world and values in a unified, coherent and universalized way in contrast with foxes - which are more multifarious, disjointed and complex in how they defend their core understandings.
Berlin gen...
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