Hedgehog & Fox: Mayor Foy Honors Robert Brown
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy wrote a nice piece for the IndyWeek on friend and local civil rights activist Robert Brown.
I’m not sure whether Robert Brown was a hedgehog or a fox, but I know that he thought about it. He probably had an opinion, although I never asked him which he thought he was. Robert was a thinker, an informed thinker who read widely, and would off-handedly refer to something like Isaiah Berlin’s The Hedgehog & The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History…
Thanks Kevin for reminding me of Berlin’s essay and Brown’s works. (more…)
