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...In December 1945, he met another Russian expert who was on a visit to Moscow: the philosopher Isaiah Berlin....
...As a child he was fascinated by a children’s book, Six on Goldtop Hill, which he was told by his English teacher Miss Iles had been banned....
...Twitter’s decision to ban Donald Trump, following last year’s invasion of Capitol Hill, was swiftly emulated by Facebook, YouTube and others....
...Isaiah Berlin, Dirk Bogarde and RD Laing — who calls Braithwaite an “odious conman” — all get cameos....
...The quote is a reference to Isaiah Berlin’s explanation of what happens when we retreat into ourselves as “the external world has proved to be exceptionally arid, cruel or unjust”....
...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....
...Andrew Hill is the FT’s management editor Illustration by James Ferguson Letter in response to this article: About those over-60s who refuse to renew / From Eddie Montreaux...
...Up the block, after a vigil for the shooting victims, Isaiah Turman, 23, said he’d never had a problem with police....
...Eric Hobsbawm, Harold Laski, Christopher Hill, E P Thompson and E H Carr were all frequent visitors....
...Building: Letters 1960-1975, by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy and Mark Pottle, Chatto RRP£40/Random House UK RRP$59.95, 704 pages Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic, by...
...But it is important to understand that the shutdown strategy did not emerge overnight from an office on Capitol Hill. It is part of a well-funded, thought-through campaign....
...The passage, from Isaiah, said “those who have been ransomed will return”....
...Simon Blackburn is the Bertrand Russell professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a distinguished research professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill....
...Friedman is what Isaiah Berlin called a hedgehog – he knows one big thing (or at least one big thing per book) and he devotes 412 pages to cramming pretty much all of the world, ranging from his younger...
...In their Shinto religion they already believed that their rocks and hills were the homes of gods. So they claimed that the Islands of the Immortals in Chinese legend were the islands of Japan itself....
...His parents found a place where he could master it: Orange Hill Grammar, a north-west London state school....
...The philosopher Isaiah Berlin divided people into foxes, who know many little things, and hedgehogs, who know one big thing and Gladwell, unsurprisingly, identifies himself as a fox....
...(George Hill, executive secretary, Doctors Opposing Circumcision.) Compare the rapper Kool Moe Dee’s, How can one man be so dumb?...
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