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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

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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Rankin Sherling

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…