The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This fragment of verse by the Greek poet Archilochus describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy, in wh…

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