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...I’m Ethan Wu. Thanks for listening. [MUSIC PLAYING]...
...A soprano trio of Yvette Keong, Mer Wohlgemuth and Katherine Whyte sounded superb in “Letras Para Cantar” by Angélica Negrón....
...I’m kinda from nowhere.” Her demeanour is pure intellectual self-confidence....
...And last week we heard the stories of two more victims of police shootings: Anthony Brown Jr, and Isaiah Brown....
...I used to think I would never be able to write opinion columns because I’m never quite sure exactly where I stand....
...But she liked a chat and famously sat up all night talking to Isaiah Berlin about art, poetry and history when the philosopher visited the USSR in 1945....
...I have only one N95 mask and I’m waiting to wear it until things are worse. I hope I’ll survive long enough until I really need it,” he said....
...At All Souls, she shows me a David Hockney sketch of Isaiah Berlin and a smouldering photograph of GA Cohen....
...The phrase was coined by the philosopher Isaiah Berlin in his essay “Two Concepts of Liberty”. Reading the original, I find he is not really on board with the idea — it is a retreat, after all....
...Which is where Isaiah grew up....
...You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most, by Leonard J Marcus, Eric J McNulty, Joseph M Henderson, Barry C Dorn Do you have what it takes to lead in a crisis?...
...I’m still evangelical because I want to uphold and amplify this tradition....
...That book had begun life as a doctoral thesis supervised by Isaiah Berlin. This one is dedicated to Berlin, her “great teacher and mentor”....
...The philosopher Isaiah Berlin divided thinkers into two camps: hedgehogs, who know one big thing, and foxes, who know many things. It is a conceit that is outrageously reductive yet hard to resist....
...You don’t have to be the prophet Isaiah, but you need a bit of vision.”...
...By the turn of the 20th century, Riga was a cosmopolitan hub with large German and Jewish communities (Isaiah Berlin was born there)....
...Instead, a “parasitic wasp” buzzed around his brain, asking him questions like “How come I’m not on the Sunday talk shows?” “How come I’m not in charge of something, like a business?”...
...Taking inspiration from the Greek poet Archilochus, who said, “a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing”, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin split history’s great intellectuals into two camps...
...We’re among the few early lunchers at Murano and I’m reluctant to break the cool quiet of Angela Hartnett’s Michelin-starred dining room with a profanity. But, I venture, is this not essentially BS?...
...In Isaiah Berlin’s terms, they are foxes rather than hedgehogs, snapping up useful ideas from all over, rather than leaning on unifying theories....
...In Isaiah Berlin’s famous phrasing, she is a fox, who knows many little things, not a hedgehog who knows one big thing. Some small ideas have been supported by evidence....
...I’m speaking here of the partisans who use it to put a lacquer of righteousness over fearfulness and resentment, and I’m speaking here of the seminaries that make a sort of Esperanto of world religions and...
...“I’m not naive. I sometimes look over the shoulder of the person I’m talking to at a party to find someone more important....
...But perhaps I’m wrong,” I answered....
...When I ask for his current thinking on the party, he turns to “a lovely quote in Isaiah”. “‘Look to the rock from which you are hewn.’...
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