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The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Bubble Weary in Trump's America

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

On Familiar Spirits

A senator warns against another witch hunt

Rankin Sherling

Rankin Sherling has taught history at Queen’s University and Atlanta Metropolitan State College. He will begin teaching at Marion Military Institute: The Military College of Alabama in the fall.

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Hedgehog Gospel

A sweeping vision of religion that encompasses everything from Hinduism to evolution July–August 2014
Isaiah Berlin’s 1953 essay, “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” famously divides thinkers into two groups, those who chase after the knowledge of many things and those who relate everything to a central vision. One problem with the latter group is a tendency to explain the whole world and solve its problems through a structure or system of their own…