The Dilettante abides
The Dilettante abides
Anne Applebaum has quoted Alexey Navalny‘s recent Tweet, in which the Russian opposition leader criticized Donald Trump’s expulsion from Twitter. Here’s a concatenation of some points Navalny made that I feel are not without some merit: Don’t tell me he…
I’m not particularly fond of Anne Applebaum’s writings but this is a great observation: Populist activists are outsiders only in that they feel insufficiently rewarded. And their opponents should never underestimate what their self-pitying vanity can make them do. I…
Anne Applebaum wrote in her Washington Post column, right up in its title: There is no one right way to react to terror. There is a wrong way. I’m not sure who died and bequeathed the arbiter morum job to Anne Applebaum,…
They are reviewing book reviews, among them Stefan Wagstyl’s of Anne Applebaum’s Gulag. Just read this: Many well-known gulag writers survived by working as “prison trusties”; others as informants. Solzhenitsyn did both. The last gulag closed in February 1992. “Solzhenitsyn…