The Presidential Debate Is Clinton’s Chance to Outfox Trump

If the late philosopher Isaiah Berlin were alive to watch Monday night’s Presidential debate, he would surely recognize the ways in which the two candidates on the stage personify his famous metaphor of hedgehogs and foxes. In Berlin’s terms, Donald Trump is a classic hedgehog. He knows, or claims to know, one big thing: the United States and the world are going to hell in a handbasket, and they need a strong man like him to fix things. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, is one of Berlin’s foxes. She knows many things.