Category: Dostoevsky

Sen. David Richards: The Aggrieved

September 13, 2022
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Commentary Money which my wife and I now have but never had for years seems to provoke the belief in others that we should have a kind of commitment toward open-mindedness, a feeling that we must pay obligatory lip service to the “liberal” issues that have forced their way into the court of today’s public…

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University Walks Back Decision to Postpone Teaching Dostoevsky Over Russian Invasion

March 4, 2022
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An Italian university reversed course on a decision to postpone a course on 19-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week. Paoli Nori, a writer who had been asked by the University of Milano-Bicocca to voluntarily teach a four-session course on the author, took to Instagram in an emotional video after…

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Undermining the Foundations: Lessons From Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘Devils’

March 30, 2021
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Early in March, I was sucker punched by a Russian. A dead Russian, as a matter of fact. Let me explain. Late in December, I made a New Year’s resolution to read at least six classics that were new to me in the coming year. Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe” was my first choice, and I…

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