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These college revolutionaries will eventually get tired of co-opting institutions and seek to tear them down entirely.

America’s college campuses are in a state of complete meltdown — at least in blue states, where administrators cater to the whims of these America-hating dolts. But why are these

America’s college campuses are in a state of complete meltdown — at least in blue states, where administrators cater to the whims of these America-hating dolts. But why are these

 

 

Morson would like to draw a sharp dividing line between the refined sensibilities of Golden Age czarist Russia and the horrors of the Soviet Union.

Books of cultural criticism seldom shed a piercing light on headline events. However, readers of “Wonder Confronts Certainty,” Gary Saul Morson’s masterly…

Russia, that half-barbarous country, whose leaders, be they czars or commissars, Rasputins or Putins, have always treated their own people as if they were a conquered nation, this same Russia, in the course of little more than a century brought forth the greatest body of literature the world has ever known. That is a large but, I believe, not risky generalization. Think only of the dazzling cavalcade of Russian writers: Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Goncharov, Leskov, Chekhov, ...