Arianna Huffington: Why America Is Deeply in Need of a Good Hedgehog
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 17th, 2011 4:44 am by HL
Arianna Huffington: Why America Is Deeply in Need of a Good Hedgehog
What the country needs right now is a good hedgehog. Back in 1953, British philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously laid out two opposing styles of leadership — hedgehogs and foxes — taking his cue from a line in an ancient Greek poem by Archilochus: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” According to Berlin, the fox will “pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory, connected, if at all, only in some de facto way.” In contrast, the hedgehog offers an “unchanging, all embracing… unitary inner vision.” Right now, with the country in crisis mode, the American people sense that our problems can’t be solved by foxy spinning, triangulating, slicing and dicing, and tinkering at the edges. They are longing for a hedgehog at the helm — even a fanatical, delusional hedgehog like those currently leading the Republican Party.
D.R. Burgess: Be Careful What You Wish For
Democrats are cheering Michele Bachmann on with the vindictive glee of a crowd watching an opposing player streaking down the field to score an own goal. I am not so sanguine.
Tobacco Companies Sue Federal Government Over Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government Tuesday over new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up…