One more tonight from NYRB, this one by Gary Saul Morson on the history of Russian liberals and how their deep distrust of ordinary people helped preserve the authoritarianism in Russia that's come back to eat them. American orthodoxy shares some of these assumptions. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/02/13/with-liberals-like-these-russian-liberalism-paul-robinson/
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Many of whom still revere Stalin...