isaiah berlin popularized to this famous distinction between the hedgehog in the fox. hedgehog knows one thing that's sanders the fox knows many things and that's clinton. it is interesting to watch these two styles. i have some symmetry for sanders because he is a man of integrity and see. a wonderful life. we have to think for all our candidates execution strategy. how does any of this going to happen? i'm not sure any candidate really solves it. i'm not sure the primaries allow charlie rose: you would think that someone running for president would thought about it? some sense of understanding where the country is what is in contrast in opposition and heavy fix that. from us marry up almost famously said from poetry to prose? from the campaign to the governing. david brooks: what barack obama taught us is is not enough to be a skilled politician. wanted to transcend every line you can imagine. create a governing majority. his policies that he came in with were orthodox democratic policies. you have to have a set of policies that cuts across lines. a little from colum

i was thinking about the great isaiah berlin distinction between hedgehogs and foxes. tend not to identify myself as either one. i like to take myself to be more attentive to what hedgehogs and foxes do. what splitters and the lumpers take themselves to be up to. this is what i'm going to try to do today. what is african american religion? an informative body of religion has been written about the difficulties in the study of religion, generally. many of the debates about whether religion is reducible to some other more fundamental notion like the unconscious and the like. interestingly complicated when we think about religion in tandem with race. more specifically, the issue becomes even messier when the modifier "black" or "african american" describes religion. these adjectives bear the unusual burden of a difficult history that colors the way religion is practiced and understood in the united states. they register the horror of slavery and the terror of jim crow, as well as the richly textured experiences of a captured people, for whom sorrow stands alongside joy. i