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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 Joy in Life

In Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Anna Karenina there is real human joy. A mother caring for her children turns out to be the hero of the story in many stories. In War and Peace a soldier describes his happiest moment as being at a wolf hunt. The crucial thing about it is that you are so wrapped up in the moment, you wouldn't remember it.

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