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“…There is decidedly nothing in the whole world that would make men love their fellow men,” said Ivan Fyodorovich, a character in the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel “The Brothers Karamazov.” “Were mankind’s belief in its immortality to be destroyed…everything would be permitted…” I sincerely apologize to my readers for bringing us so swiftly to such a...

The great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky believed that we are individually responsible for the sins of everyone in the world.

Whatever moral authority my father still possessed, after all I’d seen and heard, was destroyed and swept away.