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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 Importance of Dialectical Materialism

I think, Professor, I read something you wrote very early. When you said that you had studied dialectical materialism, and you saw it as an oxymoron,. It could be dialectical or it could be materialism, but it couldn't be both. And one of the things you don't do there is you don't attribute human characteristics to non-to atoms. The evolution of societies towards communism is matter has a direction, which is where history gets its direction.

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