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'Wonder Confronts Certainty' — A Conversation with Professor Gary Saul Morson about the Deep Mysteries of Great Russian Literature

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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The Power of Ideology

I think Solzhenitsyn deals with this so, so brilliantly, the power of ideology is so self-blinding. It certainly has to be a warning to us all. And people are, I mean, what the literature also talks about is, and some of the memoirs, how seductive it is. People want simple moral judgments, simple judgments about life right and wrong, and so they will gravitate towards ideologies of this sort.

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